Bangabhumi also known as Bir Bongo, is a separatist movement to create a Bengali Hindu country for Bangladeshi Hindus in southwestern Bangladesh, envisioned by Banga Sena. Banga Sena is a separatist Hindu organization which advocates formation of a Bangabhumi for Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh. The group is led by Kalidas Baidya.
The Border Guards Bangladesh, formerly known as the Bangladesh Rifles, is the oldest uniformed force of Bangladesh. It is a paramilitary force under the Ministry of Home Affairs. BGB is primarily responsible for the border security of the country, in Bangladesh the force is known as "The Vigilant Sentinels of the National Frontier". The Present Director General is Maj. Gen. Shafeenul Islam.
Bangladesh has undergone several changes of government since its independence.
The 2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes were a series of armed skirmishes between India and Bangladesh in April 2001. The clashes took place between troops of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on the poorly-marked international border between the two countries.
The Bangladesh Rifles revolt was a mutiny staged on 25 and 26 February 2009 in Dhaka by a section of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), a paramilitary force mainly tasked with guarding the borders of Bangladesh. The rebelling BDR soldiers took over the BDR headquarters in Pilkhana, killing BDR director-general Shakil Ahmed along with 56 other army officers and 17 civilians. They also fired on civilians, held many of their officers and their families hostage, vandalised property and looted valuables. By the second day, unrest had spread to 12 other towns and cities. The mutiny ended as the mutineers surrendered their arms and released the hostages after a series of discussions and negotiations with the government.
Pilkhana is a para-military cantonment in Dhaka. It is the headquarters of Border Guard Bangladesh, located to the south of Dhanmondi in Dhaka of Bangladesh.
2009 (MMIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium, the 9th year of the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.
Colonel (Retd.) Sahibzada Shahid Sarwar Azam FIEB is the current head of the Singranatore family.
Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, is a retired three-star general of the Bangladesh Army and former Chief of the Border Guard Bangladesh during the conflicts with Border Security Force of India and skirmishes with Banga Sena militant group in the Bangladesh–India border.
Major General Shakil Ahmed was a two-star general of the Bangladesh Army and the head of Bangladesh Rifles. He was commissioned in the Regiment of Artillery in 1976. He was a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College, Malaysia. A former Distinguished Allied Graduate from Field Artillery Officers Advanced Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma of the US Army, he had been a Directing Staff at Defence Services Command and Staff College in Mirpur, Dhaka. He was also an instructor at Artillery School and commanded a Field Artillery Brigade. Later he became a Sector Commander of Bangladesh Rifles.
Hili is a railway station in Hakimpur Upazila in Dinajpur District of Rangpur Division in Bangladesh. It is right on the Bangladesh-India border and has land border crossing arrangements. The other side of the border is also Hili - Hili, Dakshin Dinajpur.
Shimanto Square is a shopping center in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is managed by Border Guard Bangladesh.
Gulzar Uddin Ahmed also known as Colonel Gulzar Ahmed was the founding director of the intelligence wing of Rapid Action Battalion. He was a colonel in Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Rifles.
Shaheed Colonel Kazi Emdadul Haque Public School is a secondary school in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, situated at the Border Guards Bangladesh sector headquarters. It is named after Colonel Kazi Emdadul Haque who died in the Pilkhana BDR mutiny. The school was established in 2010 and began enrolling students in 2011.
Deaths along the Bangladesh–India border occur many times a year as result of people attempting to illegally cross into India from Bangladesh, cross border firing and cattle smuggling. Bangladesh and India share a 4,096 kilometer border. To prevent smuggling and illegal migration from Bangladesh, the Indian Border Security Force exercises its controversial "Shoot-on-sight" policy. Under this policy, the BSF can shoot any person on site with or without cause. A large portion of the victims are cattle traders and farmers with land near the border. Regarding border killings, Brad Adams, Executive Director of the Asia Department of Human Right Watch state that, "Routinely shooting poor, unarmed villagers is not how the world's largest democracy should behave."
Aziz Ahmed is a four Star General of Bangladesh and the current Chief of Army Staff (CAS) of the Bangladesh Army.
A. L. M. Fazlur Rahman is a retired Bangladesh Army officer and former Director General of Bangladesh Rifles. Since retirement he has been working as a security analyst in Bangladesh.
Md Rafiqul Islam is a retired Bangladesh Army major general and former Director General of Border Guards Bangladesh.
Equipment of the Border Guards Bangladesh is a list of the equipment currently in use in the Border Guards Bangladesh. It includes small arms, vehicles, vessels and aircraft.
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