| Mohammad Kamrul Hasan | |||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 12 March 1975 | ||||||||||||
| Branch: | Border Guard Bangladesh | ||||||||||||
| Serviceyears: | June 1996 – present | ||||||||||||
| Rank: | Colonel | ||||||||||||
| Unit: | Regiment of Artillery | ||||||||||||
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| Battles: | UNAMID | ||||||||||||
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Md Kamrul Hassan is a Bangladesh Army officer and former additional director general of operations of Rapid Action Battalion.[1] [2]
In 2012, Hasan was the commanding officer of the Rapid Action Battalion-10.[3] In 2013, he was part of the management committee of 8th Bangladesh Games.[4]
From 2013 to 2014, Hasan served as the Operational Officer of Bangladeshi Contingent in United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur.[5] He served as Defence Advisor at the Bangladesh High Commission in India.[6] From 10 June 2015 to 20 December 2016, Hasan was the member secretary of the Army Golf Club.[7] He had replaced Lieutenant colonel Md Mahbubul Islam and was replaced by Lieutenant colonel Muhammad Nurul Kabir.
As the commanding officer of the Rapid Action Battalion-11, Hasan detained Islamist terrorists of Neo JMB’s Sarwar-Tamim group.[8] He detained suspected terrorists from Narisingdi District.[9] He detained eight suspected members of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh from Narayanganj District and Comilla District.[10] His unit investigated the murder of Tanwir Muhammad Taqi.[11]
In May 2021, Hasan was the director of 58th battalion of Border Guard Bangladesh.[12]
Hasan was promoted to colonel and appointed as additional director general of operations of the Rapid Action Battalion in June 2022 replacing Colonel KM Azad. On 10 December 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury added Azad to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list under the Global Magnistsky Act for engaging in serious human rights abuses relating to his tenure at RAB.[13] [14] [15]
In May 2023, Hasan was replaced by Colonel Mahbub Alam as additional director general of operations of the Rapid Action Battalion according to Commander Khandaker Al Moin[16] as he returned to Bangladesh Army.