ANM Golam Mostafa, (1942 – 14 December 1971) was a martyred Bengali journalist.
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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.[
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Participation in Bengali movements
Mostafa suffer imprisonment for taking part anti-Ayub mass movement in 1969. According to Kamal Lohani
Kamal Lohani (26 June 1934 – 20 June 2020) was a Bangladeshi journalist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2015 by the Government of Bangladesh. He served as the director general of Shilpakala Academy from April 2009 until April 2011.
Career
Loh ...
, 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.’[
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Death
Mostafa's son Anirban Mostafa was only nine months old when some armed Al-Badr
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men abducted his father from their Gopibagh house on December 11, 1971.Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin
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, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan
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, 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
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teachers and three physicians – in December 1971.[
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See also
* 1971 Bangladesh atrocities
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References
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1942 births
1971 deaths
Bangladeshi murder victims
People murdered in Bangladesh
People killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War