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Flag of the Bangladesh Army. The Bangladesh Army is commanded by the Chief of Army Staff who is a four star general and chief administrative officer at Army Headquarters. Under the command of army headquarters, Bangladesh Army has 1 training command, 1 logistics command and 10 area commands consigned with their coequal divisions.
The Derg (or Dergue; Amharic: ደርግ, lit. ' committee ' or ' council '), officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), [4] [5] was the Ethiopian state (including present-day Eritrea) that existed first from 1974 to 1987 as a military dictatorship and then until 1991 when the military junta formally "civilianized" the administration although remained in power.
Map during the Ethiopian Civil War showing insurgent strategic route in advance of Addis Ababa. The EPLF and ELF were successful in seizing 80% of Eritrea, but the Derg as soon as diverted their attention to Eritrea after victory against Somalia, fearing the loss of Red Sea in isolation of Ethiopia. In early 1978, they organized 90,000 powerful ...
Generals holding appointments of the army headquarters and ministries within the government have been written in bold format (e.g. Master General of Ordnance - MGO); Other appointments apart from general officer commanding are indicated with the corresponding appointments, such as the vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Professionals is designated as (VC BUP).
The Derg had initially approached the Western Bloc, including the United States and Western European countries, but shifted towards the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact) due to the lack of US support for Ethiopia and the recurring human rights violations in the country. The foreign policy of the military regime was characterized by a ...
The Bangladesh Forces was organized for the war in 1971 into in 11 divisions (sectors) and later 3 indep brigades were christened, under BDF HQ situated at 8 Theatre Road, Calcutta, West Bengal. Bangladesh interim provincial government of July 11, 1971 appointed Col. M A G Osmani as Commander in Chief.
List of formations of the Bangladesh Army This page was last edited on 21 October 2021, at 14:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
July – the famine garnered international attention especially from Western community. The Oxfam and Live Aid concerted charity which ignited controversy whether NGOs in Ethiopia were under the control of Derg government or Oxfam and Live Aid coordinated to the Derg's enforced resettlement programmes, which displaced and killed between 50,000 and 100,000 people.