Simply over a month after changing into Bangladesh’s military chief, Basic Waker-Us-Zaman has shot to fame by asserting the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled the nation on Monday.
Zaman stated in a televised handle that after talks with “all political events” it had been determined that an interim authorities can be fashioned.
It was not clear whether or not the navy would play a job, however Zaman stated: “Now we are going to go to the president of the nation, the place we are going to talk about the formation of the interim authorities, we are going to kind the interim authorities and we are going to handle the nation,” he stated.
Bangladesh has been engulfed in protests and violence that started final month after pupil teams demanded the scrapping of a controversial quota system for presidency jobs. This led to a marketing campaign to hunt the impeachment of Hasina, who has been in energy for 15 years and just lately gained a fourth consecutive time period in January.
Practically 250 individuals have died on account of the violence.
Zaman, 58, took over as military chief on June 23 for a three-year time period, the conventional size of the put up.
Born in Dhaka in 1966, he’s married to Sarahnaz Kamalika Zaman, daughter of Basic Muhammad Mustafizur Rahman, who was military chief from 1997 to 2000.
Zaman holds a grasp’s diploma in Defence Research from the Nationwide College of Bangladesh and a grasp’s diploma in Defence Research from King’s Faculty London, based on the Bangladesh Military web site.
Earlier than changing into military chief, he served as Chief of Military Employees for simply over six months, a job wherein he oversaw, amongst different issues, navy operations and intelligence, Bangladesh’s function in United Nations peacekeeping operations and the price range.
In a profession spanning three and a half many years, he has additionally labored intently with Hasina, serving as Principal Employees Officer of the Armed Forces Division below the Prime Minister’s Workplace.
Zaman has additionally been related to modernizing the military, based on the military’s web site.
As protests rocked the nation as soon as once more this month, Zaman known as on military personnel to make sure the security of individuals’s lives, property and vital state services.
