Salauddin Mumtaz
Bir Uttom Recipient
Salauddin Mumtaz BU (Bengali: সালাহউদ্দিন মমতাজ; 23 August 1945 – 31 July 1971) was a Bengali military officer during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
In Bangladesh he is honorifically designated Shahid ("martyr") for dying for the Bangladeshi cause. He was also posthumously given the title Bir Uttom, meaning "better among braves" in Bengali, the second-highest Bangladeshi award for gallantry. He is famous for one of his last quotes: "Yahya [the Pakistani president] don't have the bullet to stop Salauddin," which ultimately proved true when, after all other efforts failed, the Pakistan Army only stopped him with a mortar bomb.
Early life
Mumtaz was born in 1945 in Mukterbari, a village in North Charipoor, Feni District. His paternal grandfather was the Muslim zamindar of Akyab in Burma (Myanmar) and his maternal grandfather Moulove Abdur Razzak was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the Bengal Legislative Assembly of British India. His father, Shamsuddin Ahmedan, was a lawyer who earned his LLB degree from Aligarh Muslim University and started his law practice in Kolkata. Young Salauddin started his schooling while living with his parents in that city. After the Independence of Pakistan, his family returned to Feni, where Salauddin completed his primary education at Debipur Primary School. He passed his tenth-year Matriculation exam at Feni Government Pilot High School.
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