Freedom fighter Ahmed Reza seriously ill
Planning Minister and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Liberation Army Air Vice Marshal (retd) AK Khandaker visits Ahmed Reza, commander of Naval Commando Force of Bangladesh Army in 1971, at the Square Hospital in the city recently. Photo: STAR
Freedom fighter Ahmed Reza, Commander of Naval Commando Force of Bangladesh Army in 1971, is seriously ill and under treatment at city's Square Hospital. He has been suffering from cancer for one and half years and was admitted to the hospital from August 19, said his daughter Rini Reza. Ahmed Reza was in Singapore for treatment in August last year, says a press release. Planning Minister and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Liberation Army Air Vice Marshal (retd) AK Khandaker visited ailing Ahmed Reza at the hospital recently. Ahmed Reza, a fighter-bomber pilot, trained the naval commandos in exile in absence of naval officers at the beginning of the War of Liberation. At that time he was the director of youth and reception camp and trained guerillas until the end of the War of Liberation. He trained around 100,000 guerillas. After independence, he worked in different capacities within Bangladesh government and retired as the chairman of Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust.
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