Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan

General (Retd.) Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan served as Bangladesh's Chief of Army Staff from 2012 to 2015. He served in Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and in UN peacekeeping in Sierra Leone, and was awarded the Kuwait Liberation Medal for distinguished service. During his tenure as army chief, he resisted pressure to deploy officers to paramilitary forces used against political opposition. In 2024, he was among retired senior military officers who publicly called on the government to withdraw armed forces from the streets during the student uprising. He is a prosecution witness before Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal in cases of enforced disappearances committed under the former regime.