Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In the late 1970s and 1980s, the Bangladeshi military saw several insurrections as the country endured dictatorship. Since the restoration of parliamentary democracy in 1991, the Bangladesh Armed Forces have been subordinate to the civilian governments, including political and technocratic governments.
The 2011 Bangladesh coup attempt was a coup planned for 11–12 January 2012 that was stopped by the Bangladesh Army in December 2011. This was announced at a press conference on 19 January 2012. The purpose of the coup was to establish Islamic law in Bangladesh. [14] [15] A number of officers including retired ones were arrested. [16]
G. M. Mushfiqur Rahman, a lieutenant in the Bangladesh Army posted in 1 Field Artillery Regiment of Bangladesh Army in Chittagong Hill Tracts. On 8 September 1989, he led a 17-member team of Bangladesh Army soldiers and attacked a Shanti Bahini camp. Lieutenant Rahman was injured during the clash and died on that day at 8:15 am.
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", commonly shortened as the "'80s", pronounced "eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989. For Bangladesh this decade was characterized by economic hardship, natural disasters and military dictatorship.
Bangladesh Rifles was called the East Pakistan Rifles before the Independence of Bangladesh under the Bangladesh Rifles Order, 1972. [2] [3] It traces its origins to the Bengal Military Police formed by British India government to guard the frontiers of the region. [2] It had fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Salvador Allende had been viewed as a threat to US hegemony in South America long before he was elected as Chilean president in 1970, at a time when much of the continent was ruled by military ...
The 2018 Bangladesh Quota Reform Movement was a movement demanding reforms in policies regarding recruitment in the Bangladesh government services. Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Adhikar Sangrakshan Parishad (Bangladesh General Students' Right Conservation Council) initiated movement initially began in Shahbag and on Dhaka University campus on 17 ...
Internal conflict in Bangladesh (1972–present) Location: Bangladesh Bangladesh: Various anti-Government groups Ongoing. First phase crushed Establishment of military rule in Bangladesh; Second phase crushed Signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord [1] Preservation of the territorial integrity of Bangladesh; Third phase ongoing