Rezanur Rahman Khan

Rezanur Rahman Khan
Allegiance Bangladesh
Branch
 Bangladesh Army
Bangladesh Ansar
Bangladesh Rifles
Service years
1981 – 2016
Rank
Major General
UnitEast Bengal Regiment
Commands
Conflicts
UNMEE
UNOMUR
Police career
UnitRapid Action Battalion
Allegiance Bangladesh
Branch Bangladesh Police
Service years2009
RankAdditional Director General

Rezanur Rahman Khan is a retired major general of the Bangladesh Army and a former ambassador of Bangladesh to Iraq.[1][2] He was a former additional director general of the Rapid Action Battalion.[3] He was the general officer commanding Jessore Cantonment.

Career

Khan was commissioned as an officer of the East Bengal Regiment of the Bangladesh Army on 27 December 1981.[4]

Khan had served as the commander of the Army Security Unit.[4] He also served in the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea and the United Nations Observer Mission Uganda–Rwanda.[4] He was the general officer commanding in the 55th Infantry Division based in Jashore Cantonment.[4][5] He was the vice president of the Jessore Golf Club.[4]

Khan served in Bangladesh Rifles in 2005 as a sector commander.[6] He was the deputy commandant of the East Bengal Regimental Centre in Chittagong Cantonment in 2007 and eventually became commandant after being advanced to brigadier general in September 2009.[7]

In January 2009, Khan was appointed additional director general of the Rapid Action Battalion, replacing Colonel Gulzar Uddin Ahmed.[8] He oversaw the detention of two Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders protesting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation from the organisation in 2009.[9] He targeted Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh.[10][11][12] In December 2010, he was appointed military secretary at Army headquarters after being promoted to major general.[13]

Khan was the commandant of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operation Training from 8 February 2016 to 11 August 2016.[14]

In September 2013, Khan was appointed the ambassador of Bangladesh to Iraq.[4] He replaced Muhammad Kamaluddin.[15] He visited the Bismaya New City Project after Iraqi security officials assaulted Bangladeshi workers due to alleged links with the Sunni insurgency.[16][17] He secured the salary of Bangladeshi workers trapped in Najaf.[18][19] He rescued Bangladeshi workers from Mosul.[20] The Bangladesh government resumed sending workers in September 2014.[21]

References

  1. ↑ "News in Brief". The Daily Star. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Peacekeepers earn int'l acclaim for Bangladesh". The Daily Star. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  3. ↑ "Faisal finally shown held". The Daily Star. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Rezanur new BD Envoy to Iraq". Banglanews24.com (in Bengali). 19 September 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  5. ↑ "Business 10". The Daily Star. 25 April 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  6. ↑ "High level BDR-BSF border confce at Shiliguri Sept 6-9". The Daily Star. 3 September 2005. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  7. ↑ "Do business without any fear". The Daily Star. 26 September 2007. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  8. ↑ "Terror struck back at its buster". The Daily Star. 12 March 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  9. ↑ "Rab arrests 2 BCL leaders". The Daily Star. 14 April 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  10. ↑ "Voicebox". Star Weekend Magazine. 27 February 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  11. ↑ Manik, Julfikar Ali; Islam, Shariful (23 June 2009). "Eyes shift to universities". The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  12. ↑ "8 JMB men held, bomb-making materials seized". The Daily Star. 13 April 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  13. ↑ "3 promoted to major general". The Daily Star. 13 December 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  14. ↑ "Ex-Commandants - BIPSOT". bipsot.net. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  15. ↑ "Govt sending new ambassador to Iraq". Bdnews24.com. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  16. ↑ "38 more back home from Iraq". The Daily Star. 16 July 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  17. ↑ "38 more return from Iraq". The Daily Star. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  18. ↑ "Iraqi employer to clear salaries". The Daily Star. 16 August 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  19. ↑ Biplob, Belal Hossain (4 December 2014). "Just bring them back from Iraq". The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  20. ↑ "Govt takes maiden initiative to bring back Bangladeshis". The Daily Star. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  21. ↑ "Govt resumes sending workers to violence-torn Iraq". The Daily Star. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
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