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Chittagong Cantonment

Bangladesh Cantonment

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ24882892 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chittagong Cantonment is situated near Bayezid Bostami of Chattogram, Bangladesh. It is the headquarters of 24th Infantry Division.

History

An Indian army tank captured by the East Bengal Regiment near Lahore in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 is displayed in the cantonment. On 30 May 1981, President Ziaur Rahman was assassinated in Chattogram city by officers based in Chattogram Cantonment. The base commander General Abul Manzur was also accused of involvement in the coup. He himself was killed on 2 June 1981.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Chittagong Cantonment” is bangladesh Cantonment. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chittagong, Cantonment and Bangladesh, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Chittagong, Cantonment and Bangladesh is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “bangladesh Cantonment” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24882892. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1965 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chittagong Cantonment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.