ANM Golam Mostafa
আনম গোলাম মোস্তফা
Born1942
Nilphamari, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died14 December 1971(1971-12-14) (aged 28–29)

ANM Golam Mostafa, (1942 – 14 December 1971) was a martyred Bengali journalist.[1][2]

Early life and career

Mostofa was born in 1942 in Pangagram in Nilphamari district. He graduated from Surendranath College in 1963. He completed his master's degree from University of Dhaka in 1965.[3]

Mostafa, a sub-editor of Dainik Purbadesh, was an outspoken person known for his secular views.[1][4]

Participation in Bengali movements

Mostafa suffer imprisonment for taking part anti-Ayub mass movement in 1969. According to Kamal Lohani, Mostofa started believing from late 1970 that the then East Pakistan would be independent and that Mostafa was the first to call East Pakistan, ‘Bangladesh.’[1]

Death

Mostafa's son Anirban Mostafa was only nine months old when some armed Al-Badr men abducted his father from their Gopibagh house on December 11, 1971.[2] Golam Mostafa never returned home, neither was his body ever found.[4]

On 3 November 2013, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – six journalists including Golam Mostafa, nine Dhaka University teachers and three physicians – in December 1971.[5] Mueenuddin and Golam Mostafa were colleagues at the daily Purbadesh in 1971.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Son testifies, Golam Mostafa was picked up, killed by Ashraf, Mueen". New Age. 15 August 2013. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 Habib, Wasim Bin (4 November 2013). "Day he waited so long for". Daily Star. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  3. ↑ Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir, eds. (2012). "Mostafa, ANM Gholam". Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 Chakma, Muktasree (4 November 2013). "Might of their pens scared al-Badr". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Chowdhury, Syed Tashfin (3 November 2013). "UK Muslim leader Chowdhury Mueen Uddin sentenced to death in Bangladesh". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-06. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
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