- Source: ANM Muniruzzaman
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ANM Muniruzzaman was a Bangladeshi statistician who was killed in the Bangladesh Liberation war and is considered a martyr in Bangladesh.
Early life
Muniruzzaman was born in Kacherkol, Shailkupa, Jhenaidaha in 1924. He graduated from Narail SD High School in 1940 and in 1942 from Presidency College, Calcutta. He finished his BSc in statistics from Presidency College and his MSc, also in Statistics, from Calcutta University.
Career
Muniruzzaman joined the Indian Statistical Institute in 1946 where he worked till 1948. After which he joined Dhaka University as a lecturer in the Department of Statistics. In 1961 he was promoted to reader and in 1967 to the chairman of the Department of Statistics.
Death and legacy
On 25 March 1971, at the start of Operation Searchlight and Bangladesh Liberation war, the Pakistan Army attacked his residence. The army killed him, his older son, his nephew and also his brother. Bangladesh Post Office issued commemorative stamps with his name on 14 December 1991, the Martyred Intellectuals Day.
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Abdullah Nurul Muhammad Muniruzzaman is a retired major general of Bangladesh Army, and president of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace & Security Studies. He is the chairperson of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change. He was the Director General of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies.
Early life and education
Muniruzzaman graduated from the National University, Bangladesh and National Defence College. He studied at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Malaysian Armed Forces Staff College, and the Naval War College.
Career
Muniruzzaman was stuck in West Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and was repatriated after the Independence of Bangladesh. He received his commission in the artillery regiment.
Muniruzzaman was the military advisor to the President of Bangladesh. He had served in the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia as the chief military liaison officer.
In 1999, Muniruzzaman worked for the establishment of Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operations Training.
Muniruzzaman was appointed the Director General of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies in 2005 to clear the path for Major General Moeen U Ahmed to become the next chief of Army Staff.
Muniruzzaman established Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies in 2007. He jointly organized a round table in 2009 in Singapore with Institute of South Asian Studies. In 2013, he testified in front of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs about Bangladesh. He raised concerns about increasing militant attacks on minorities in 2015 and had warned of prison radicalization. He has called for maintaining strategic ambiguity of Bangladesh when it comes to foreign relations.
On 22 January 2023, Muniruzzaman was elected Chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change. He had spoke in front of the UN Security Council on climate change. In February 2024, he called for the fortification of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. After the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina he called on India to engage will political parties in Bangladesh.