Sarwar Azam
Colonel Shahid Sarwar Azam FIEB, PEng, (born Muhammad Shahid Sarwar Azam Shah Jahan on 31 December 1952, sometimes spelled Mohammad Shaheed Sarwar Azam) is an Engineer, and a former military officer for Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Rifles[1]. He served as the Deputy Sector Commandar of the armed forces of the United Nations Peacekeeping forces after the onset of the Sierra Leone Civil War in 2002 in Sierra Leone, West Africa[2]. He was the first military officer of the Engineers Corps to be appointed as a Bangladesh Rifles Sector Commander in the history of the Bangladesh military (held the positions at Khagrachari and then at his home district of Rajshahi, back to back, after the events of 2001 but prior to the 2009 massacre where all sector commanders were systematically shot and killed)[3].
Military Career
From 2004-2005 he led the Bangladesh Border Guards with talks against the Indian Border Security Force and outright rejected the interpretation of Delhi, Indian capital on behalf of the Government of Bangladesh on the former's translation of the Indo-Bangladesh border treaty of 1975.[4][5] In it he protested the record amount of killings of innocent citizens by Indian military, border tension, smuggling, trespassing, drugs and arms trafficking[6][7].
He was trained by the US Army (1980) at Fort Eustis, the Indian Army at Secundarabad (1988–1989; from where he holds a postgraduate degree) and the Chinese Army in Beijing (1984–1985), in addition, he received training as a pilot.
He is the first and incumbent Director of Engineering for Jamuna Future Park (the largest mall in Asia)[8]. He is a member of the Singranatore Family, a brother-in-law to MM Rahmatullah through his elder sister Gole Afroz (namesake of Gole Afroz College), a brother-in-law of author and architect Saleh Uddin through marriage and hence a Co-brother of Major Raihanul Abedin[9].
Medals and Decorations
Medals appearing from left to right is described below.
The Army (Left to Right)
Border Guards (Left to Right)
United Nations
References
- ^ The Daily Observer BDR, BSF agree to defuse border tension: Indo-Bangla border treaty-1975 17th March , 2005
- ^ UNAMSIL Press Briefing 12 Sep 2003 United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) 12 Sep 2003
- ^ RAOWA: Retired Army Officers Welfare Association Dhaka 2010 January
- ^ News from Bangladesh BDR, BSF for peace along borders February 04 2005
- ^ News from Bangladesh BDR–BSF border conference held May 26, 2004
- ^ News Network Bangladesh Border guideline; Dhaka rejects Delhis interpretation Diplomatic Correspondent
- ^ News from Bangladesh BDR, BSF talk bilateral border issues February 03 2005
- ^ Jamuna Builders LTD 31st March (10033101)
- ^ GuleAfrozCollege Prathista Porichiti 1996 page 30
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