UN honours eight fallen Bangladeshi peacekeepers

The United Nations has awarded eight fallen peacekeepers from Bangladesh posthumously with the "Dag Hammarskjöld Medal". 

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.

A total of 129 peacekeepers from 44 nations, who lost their lives while rendering duties in different peacekeeping missions in 2020 were honoured, at a virtual ceremony on the occasion of International Day of the UN Peacekeepers yesterday. The medals were awarded by the UN secretary-general in presence of the respective permanent representatives of 44 countries at the programme.

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN, Ambassador Rabab Fatima, received the medals on behalf of Bangladesh.

Among the 129, eight were Bangladeshi peacekeepers, highest from any single country this year.

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.