Sadik Hasan Rumi

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Sadik Hasan Rumi
AllegianceFlag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh
Service / branchFlag of the Bangladesh Army.svg  Bangladesh Army
Bangladesh Ansar-VDP Flag.svg Bangladesh Ansar
Years of service1975–2008
Rank Bangladesh-army-OF-7.svg Major General
BD Army Major General Star Plate.svg
Unit East Bengal Regiment
Commands
Battles / wars 1977 Bangladesh Air Force mutiny
Other workPresident of Bangladesh Archery Association

Sadik Hasan Rumi is a former Major General of Bangladesh Army who served as Director General of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) from May 2006 to May 2007. [1] [2]

Career


Rumi was in charge of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence during the 21 August 2004 bombing in Dhaka that tried to assassinate then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina. [3] His help was sought by Abdul Aziz Sarkar, the Director General of Rapid Action Battalion, to capture Tajuddin, a terrorist and brother of Bangladesh Nationalist Party Minister Abdus Salam Pintu, who was the prime suspect in the 21 August bombing. [4] He directed Directorate General of Forces Intelligence officer Lieutenant Colonel Saiful Islam Joarder to find Tajuddin. [4] Saiful instead provided shelter to Tajuddin and Maulana Abdus Salam, the founder of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami in a DGFI safehouse in Gulshan. [4] After confirming the involvement of Tajuddin and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami in the attacks, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence officers including Rumi and Saiful helped Tajuddin and Abdus Salam go to Pakistan on the orders of Home Minister Lutfozzaman Babar. [4] [5] Prime Minister Khaleda Zia tried to bury the case. [3]

Rumi was appointed President of Bangladesh Archery Association on 17 November 2005. [6]

Rumi left Bangladesh for London before the 2007 military takeover by General Moeen U Ahmed and formation of his caretaker government. [7] He was against Major General Rezzakul Haidar Chowdhury, Director General of National Security Intelligence. [7]

Rumi was known as Kala Rumi among his colleagues to differentiate him from his fellow officer, Major General Syed Fatemi Ahmed Rumi, who was known as Shada Rumi. [8] In 2008, Rumi was appointed Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party. [8] He left military service soon after. [8]

In 2011, Rumi, in a statement to a court in Chittagong implicated Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury, former Director General of National Security Intelligence, in the 2004 arms and ammunition haul in Chittagong. [9] He had reached the site with Minister of Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar and Director General of Rapid Action Battalion Anwarul Ikbal by helicopter. [9] [10] He reported the weapons were bought from China for the United Liberation Front of Asom. [9] He had denied that he met the leader of United Liberation Front of Asom, Paresh Barua, denying the report of Assistant Superintendent of Police Moniruzzaman of the Criminal Investigation Department. [11]

In 2012, Rumi told the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 in the hearing of the 21 August 2004 bombing in Dhaka case that he was refused permission by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to investigate the case. [12] [13]

References

  1. ↑ "'Moeen asked Khaleda to leave country'". bdnews24.com. 18 November 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "'Khaleda took no action'". The Daily Star. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  3. 1 2 Manik, Julfikar Ali; Halder, Chaitanya Chandra (18 August 2012). "A test for investigators". The Daily Star. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "How an accused was sent abroad". The Daily Star. 18 August 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Senior DGFI officials helped Tajuddin flee". The Daily Star. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Gen Rumi made Archery Assoc president". The Daily Star. BSS. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  7. 1 2 Chowdhury, Mukhlesur Rahman (11 November 2016). "The Role Of The UN And The Western World During Bangladeshi Military Coup In 2007: An Empirical Research". countercurrents.org. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  8. 1 2 3 Chowdhury, Mukhlesur Rahman (2019). Crisis in Governance: Military Rule in Bangladesh during 2007–2008. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 74. ISBN   978-1-5275-4393-5.
  9. 1 2 3 "Govt high-ups had link with the cache". The Daily Star. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  10. ↑ "CID grills Rezzakul, Rahim". The Daily Star. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  11. ↑ "Ex-DGFI chief Rumi cross examined". The Daily Star. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  12. ↑ "Ex-DGFI chief cross-examined". The Daily Star. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  13. ↑ "Then PM didn't let DGFI launch probe". The Daily Star. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
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