Shaheed Asad
| Amanullah Asaduzzaman | |
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| Native name | আমানুল্লাহ মোহাম্মদ আসাদুজ্জামান |
| Born |
10 June 1942 Shibpur, Narsingdi District, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 20 January 1969 (aged 26) Dhaka, East Pakistan, Pakistan |
| Known for | Democratic political movement of 1969 |
Amanullah Mohammad Asaduzzaman (10 June 1942 – 20 January 1969) was a student activist whose death at the hands of police during an unlawful protest on 20 January 1969 "changed the nature of the student-mass movement and ... turned into a mass-upsurge against the Ayub regime and its repressive measures", according to Banglapedia.The Daily Star reports him as one of three martyrs of the 1969 uprising in East Pakistan which "set the stage for the liberation war". He was awarded Independence Day Award in 2018 posthumously by the Government of Bangladesh.
Born in Shibpur, Asaduzzaman graduated from Shibpur High School in 1960 and subsequently studied at Jagannath University (then known as Jagannath College) and Murari Chand College. After passing the latter in 1963, he entered the University of Dhaka, receiving a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in 1966 and a Masters of Arts in 1967. In that year, he organised the Krishak Samity in Shibpur, Monohardi, Raipura and Narsingdi areas at the direction of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, President of National Awami Party and Krishak Samity.
After studying at City Law College in Dhaka, Asaduzzaman sat in 1968 for a second M.A. exam in an effort to receive a better result. At the time of his death in 1969, he was in the final year of his M.A. at Dhaka University's Department of History. He was the president of the Dhaka Hall unit of East Pakistan Students Union and General Secretary of the Dhaka branch of what was at the time the East Pakistan Students Union (EPSU, Menon group).
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