Thirteen military officers from 11 countries led by the Director General of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Major General Hamidul Haque paid tribute to the martyrs of the War of Liberation at the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar on Sunday.

They placed wreaths in memory of the martyrs who made supreme sacrifice during the Great War of Independence and stood silently for some time. 

Speaking to reporters, DGFI Chief Major General Hamidul Haque said 13 military representatives of eleven embassies/high commissions based in Dhaka came to pay their respects to the martyrs who participated in the great Liberation War in 1971 responding to the call of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

“We have relations with every country. The foreign policy of Bangladesh is – ‘Friendship to all, malice towards none.’ In this context, military representatives of different countries have paid respect to our martyrs,” he said.

Later, foreign military officials signed the visitors’ book kept at the National Martyrs’ Memorial.

The 13 resident Defence/Military Attachés are Lieutenant Colonel John Dempsey of Australia, Senior Colonel Du Xinsheng of China, Brigadier Manmeet Singh Sabarwal and Colonel Azwan Abdi of Indonesia, Brigadier Soe Nyunt of Myanmar, Brigadier Roshan Shumsher Rana of Nepal, Colonel Mahmoud MJ Sharawnah of Palestine, Colonel Sergey Viktorovich Naydenov and Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Yurievich Terekhov of Russia, Colonel Erdal Şahin of Turkey, Lieutenant Colonel John Crawford Maclellan Scots of UK, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Eric De Michiei and Major Ian Leonard of the USA. 

The delegation was headed by Major General Hamidul Hoque, OSP, nswc, psc Director General of DGFI.