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  2. Women in the Bangladesh Army - Wikipedia

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    Overview Female soldiers of Bangladesh Army in parade, 16 December 2016, the Victory Day of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Army was created in 1971 in the Bangladesh Liberation War, and one Bengali female officer from the Pakistan Army's Medical Corps participated in the war, she was Captain Sitara Begum, who was awarded the Bir Protik medal; she was commissioned into the Pakistan Army Medical Corps ...

  3. Bangladesh Army Football Team Women - Wikipedia

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    On 19 September 2023, the Bangladesh Army Women's Football Team played its first official game, defeating Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan (BKSP) 2–0 in an exhibition game. Current squad. Bangladesh Army Football Team Women squad for 2023–24 season. As of 5 April 2024

  4. Mukti Bahini - Wikipedia

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    Mukti Bahini. The Mukti Bahini, [a] also known as the Bangladesh Forces, was the guerrilla resistance movement consisting of the Bangladeshi military, paramilitary and civilians during the Bangladesh Liberation War that transformed East Pakistan into Bangladesh in 1971. [2] They were initially called the Mukti Fauj.

  5. Sitara Begum - Wikipedia

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    Sitara Begum. Dr. Captain Sitara Begum is a Bangladeshi doctor, Army officer, and War hero. She is one of two women in Bangladesh who has received Bir Protik award. She played a magnificent role in Sector 2 during Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. [1] [2]

  6. Bangladesh Army - Wikipedia

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    The Bangladesh Army is the land warfare branch and the largest component of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The primary mission of the Army is to provide necessary forces and capabilities to deliver the Bangladeshi government's security and defence strategies and defending the nation's territorial integrity against external attack.

  7. 'They set their skin alight': Survivors accuse Myanmar army ...

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    Losing Rakhine State on the border with Bangladesh would be one of the greatest humiliations ever suffered by the armed forces, which have dominated Myanmar since independence in 1948.

  8. Nazma Begum - Wikipedia

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    Commandant of Army Medical Corps Centre and School. Battles/wars. MINUSCA. UNOCI. Nazma Begum is a Brigadier General of the Bangladesh Army. She is the first Bangladeshi woman Brigadier General (Health Care Management) from Army medical Corps (GDMO). [1] [2] She was awarded Begum Rokeya Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 2020.

  9. Women in the military by country - Wikipedia

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    Ukraine shows better results in military gender equality than countries like Norway (7%) or United Kingdom (9%). There are few female high officers, 2.9% (1,202 women), [103] with a dozen female colonels as of 2010 [105] and the first female general appointed in October 2018. [106]