ANM Golam Mostafa

ANM Golam Mostafa, (Bengali: আনম গোলাম মোস্তফা; 1942 – 14 December 1971) was a martyred Bengali Journalist.[1][2]

Early life

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

Career

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
  • 1971 Bangladesh atrocities

References
  1. "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. Habib, Wasim Bin (4 November 2013). "Day he waited so long for". Daily Star. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  3. "Mostafa, ANM Gholam - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Retrieved 2017-08-14.
  4. 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. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
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