Kamrul Hasan established IPTEC Ltd, an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training and service provider, in South Sudan in 2011. The African country had just achieved independence that year following a prolonged and devastating civil war. The newly born nation required investments to establish its digital infrastructure.
Disappointed by the design of the newly built Shaheed Minar on KC Dey Road in the port city's Nandan Kanan area, locals said they will pay tributes to Language Movement and Liberation War martyrs at a makeshift structure of the memorial on Chittagong Municipal Model High School premises on Victory Day.