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He died on Saturday morning while undergoing treatment at CMH in Dhaka, said Harun Habib, secretary general of the Forum of Sector Commanders.
Abu Osman Chowdhury, the commander of Sector 7 during the liberation war, was 84 years old.
In the past 11 days, two sector commanders lost their lives. Sector 4 Commander CR Dutt died on August 25.
Death of CR Dutt, Sector Commander of the War of Liberation
Abu Osman Chowdhury was suffering from various complications due to old age for a long time. His memory gradually disappeared.
He was admitted to CMH a week ago due to illness. His coronavirus infection was confirmed after testing there. They also diagnosed him with a brain tumor.
Sector commander Abu Osman is infected with coronavirus
Mahmudul Islam James, publicity secretary for the Sector Commanders Forum, told bdnews24.com that Abu Osman Chowdhury’s janaza would take place at the Central Mosque alongside Senakunj in the post-Asr cantonment on Saturday. He will then be buried in the Banani Military Cemetery.
The president mourned the death of Abu Osman Chowdhury. Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The Minister for Liberation War Affairs, AKM Mozammel Haque, the Minister of State for Culture, KM Khalid, and the Chairman of the Jatiya Party, GM Quader, also expressed their condolences.
Swadhinata Puraskar winner Abu Osman Chowdhury is a former Chandpur District Council administrator.
Abu Osman, the commander of Sector 8 during the liberation war, is a former Chandpur district council administrator. He was awarded the Medal of Independence.
Abu Osman Chowdhury was born on January 1, 1936 in the Madanergaon village of Faridganj upazila of Chandpur.
After earning a BA from Comilla Victoria College, he obtained a post in the Pakistan Army in 1956. In April 1986, he was promoted to Major.
Abu Osman received the news at the Kushtia Circuit House on the night of March 25, 1971, when the brutal Pakistan Army Search Light Operation began in Dhaka. At that time he was in charge of Chuadanga as commander of the fourth wing of the East Pakistan Rifles.
The next morning he arrived in Chuadanga from Kushtia and declared in rebellion and joined the liberation war with a group of soldiers. He was later entrusted with the responsibility of the commander of Sector 7 of the Liberation War in the southwestern part of the country.
When the government cabinet of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh was formed at Baidyanathtala in Meherpur on April 17, Abu Osman Chowdhury delivered an honor guard to the cabinet with a platoon of soldiers.
In 2014, Abu Osman Chowdhury received the Medal of Independence. (File image)
His wife Nazia Khanam also worked bravely at the time to provide food and drink, money and medicine to the families of freedom fighters on the battlefield, guarding weapons and ammunition.
After the country’s independence, Abu Osman Chowdhury was promoted to lieutenant colonel and Bangabandhu appointed him Director of the Army Service Corps (ASC).
Following the murder of Bangabandhu on 7 November 1975, during a military coup, a group of soldiers attacked the home of Abu Osman Chowdhury in Gulshan to kill him. He survived that day because he was not at home, but his wife Nazia Khanam died.
Subsequently, Abu Osman Chowdhury played an important role in the formation of the 1971 Committee to Eliminate Assassins and Intermediaries to demand the trial of war criminals. He was also Senior Vice President of the Sector Commanders Forum.
When the Awami League government came to power in 1996, Abu Osman Chowdhury was appointed president of the BJMC. Later, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appointed him administrator of the Chandpur District Council.
In 2014, the government awarded the Medal of Independence to Abu Osman Chowdhury for his heroic contribution to the War of Independence.
In 1970, Abu Osman married Nazia Khanam, the eldest daughter of Mansur Ahmed of Maulvi Para in Comilla. Nasima Osman and Fawzia Osman are her two daughters.
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