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- Dhaka ready to send troops to Liberia

Dhaka ready to send troops to Liberia
Daily Star – The Daily Star – Sep 30, 2003
The brigade will be dispatched as soon as the UN confirms the exact number of troops it wants to take from Bangladesh. The sources hoped that the UN would determine the number very soon and Bangladesh troops would head for Liberia early next month. A battalion comprising around 800 troops from Sierra Leone is expected to join the new mission in Liberia. Director of the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) Lt. Nazrul Islam said that the first team of four officers from Bangladesh Army left Dhaka on Sunday for Sierra Leone on way to Liberia… Khairul Anam is leading the team, which includes Lt. Col AM Ilys Reza Warsi, Lt Col Talukder Alauddin and Major Abdus Sobhan Chowdhury. The officers would undergo a pre-deployment training at Sierra Leone before joining the peacekeeping mission in Liberia as staff officers. “A level-2 hospital unit of Bangladesh Army comprising 60 members is also expected to leave Dhaka in the first week of October to join peacekeeping mission in Liberia,” Col. Around 4,000 Bangladeshi troops, including 2,300 in Sierra Leone, are currently working for UN peace missions across the world. Some 1,400 troops are working in Congo and 200 in other trouble-torn areas in the world, sources said.