UN to honour 8 fallen Bangladeshi peacekeepers

The UN will honour eight fallen peacekeepers from Bangladesh to mark the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers today.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said their service and sacrifices will never be forgotten, according to a press release from the UN Information Centre in Dhaka.

Guterres will preside over a ceremony at which the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal will be awarded posthumously to 129 military, police and civilian peacekeepers, including the eight from Bangladesh. They lost their lives serving under the UN flag last year and in the first month of this year, the release said.

The fallen Bangladeshi peacekeepers are Abdul Md Halim who served with MINUSMA, LCpl Md Abdulla Al Mamun and Sgt Mohammad Ibrahim, who served with United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic; Sgt Md Mobarak Hussain, LCl Md Saiful ISLAM, Md Saiful Imam Bhuiyan and Sgt Md Ziaur Rahman who were deployed with the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Washerman Nurul AMIN of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.

Bangladesh is the largest contributor of uniformed personnel to UN Peacekeeping.