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| name = Mamun Mahmud<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|11|17|mf=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Chittagong]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India]]<br />
| nationality = [[Bangladeshi]]<br />
| occupation = Police services<br />
| alma_mater = [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]], [[Aligarh Muslim University]], [[Dhaka University]]<br />
| education = MA ([[International relations]])<br />
| mother = [[Shamsunnahar Mahmud]]<br />
| father = Dr. Wahiduddin Mahmud<br />
| awards = [[Independence Award]] (2015)<ref>{{cite news |title=Eight including Shah AMS Kibria, Razzak chosen for Independence Award |url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2015/03/04/eight-including-shah-ams-kibria-razzak-chosen-for-independence-award |work=bdnews24.com |accessdate=2015-09-30}}</ref><br />
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| disappeared_date = {{disappeared date and age|1971|03|26|1928|11|17}}<br />
| disappeared_place = [[Rajshahi]], [[East Pakistan]]<br />
| disappeared_status = Presumed dead}}<br />
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'''Mamun Mahmud''', born '''Salauddin Mahmud''', (17 November 1928 – 26 March 1971) was a police officer and a martyr of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.<ref>{{cite news |script-title=bn:মামুন মাহমুদ |trans-title=Mamun Mahmood |url=http://www.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/article/401401/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A6 |work=Prothom Alo |date=2014-12-19 |language=bn |access-date=2015-09-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Police FF Memorial Museum construction in the offing - City News |url=https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=347204|access-date=2022-01-11|work=The Daily Observer}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Mahmud was born on 17 November 1928 in Chittagong, [[East Bengal]], [[British India]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Hossain|first=Abu Md. Delwar|date=18 June 2021|title=Mahmud, Mamun|url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Mahmud,_Mamun|url-status=live|access-date=11 January 2022|website=Banglapedia|language=en}}</ref> His mother, [[Shamsunnahar Mahmud|Begum Shamsunnahar Mahmud]], was a female educationalist and social worker in Bengal.<ref name=":0" /> His father, Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud, was the Superintendent of [[Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata|Calcutta Medical College]] and Surgeon General of East Pakistan.<ref name=":0" /> His maternal uncle, [[Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury]], was a close friend of poet [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]].<br />
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Mahmud had studied at the Pratt Memorial School and graduated from [[Ballygunge Government High School]] in 1942.<ref name=":0" /> He graduated from [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency University]] in 1943 and from [[Aligarh Muslim University]] in 1947.<ref name=":0" /> He graduated from the University of Dhaka with a Masters in Public Relations in 1949.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Mahmud successfully took the [[Central Superior Services]] of Pakistan and joined government service as a police officer in 1951.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Zaman|first=Habibuz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6phSu0SDeY0C&dq=Dr+Wahiduddin+Mahmud+east+pakistan&pg=PA271|title=Seventy Years in a Shaky Subcontinent|date=1999|publisher=Janus Publishing Company Lim|isbn=978-1-85756-405-1|pages=271|language=en}}</ref> He served as the [[Deputy inspector general of police|Deputy Inspector General of Police]] and the [[Superintendent (police)|Superintendent of Police]] of [[Kurigram]], [[Brahmanbaria]], [[Chittagong]], [[Chittagong Hill Tracts]], [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]], [[Khulna]], [[Dhaka]], [[Mymensingh]] and [[Rajshahi]]. In 1954 while stationed in Kurigram he founded the Kurigram cricket club.<ref name=":0" /> He had served as the chairperson of Pakistan Football Federation Referees Board.<ref name=":0" /> He edited Detective, a police journal, in 1956.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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On 17 January 1970, Mahmud refused orders to fire at citizens protesting a rally of [[Abul A'la Maududi]] in Dhaka.<ref name=":0" /> He was transferred to Mymensingh after the incident in Dhaka.<ref name=":0" /> In 1971, Mahmud was the Deputy Inspector General of Police in Rajshahi.<ref name=":0" /> On 3 March 1971, he hoisted a black flag at his residence protesting the killing of Bengali civilians by Pakistan Army.<ref name=":0" /> He had also refused to arrest the guards of the treasury house in Rajshahi who refused allow a Pakistan Army captain access on 26 March 1971.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Mamun Mahmud was married to Moshfeqa Mahmud on 26 March 1954. Their daughter Zeba Mahmud was born in 1956 and their son Javed Mahmud was born in 1960.<br />
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==Disappearance==<br />
On the evening of 26 March 1971, Mahmud was celebrating his 17th marriage anniversary with his wife and two children at their home in [[Rajshahi]] when he was called to the Rajshahi Cantonment Area to meet Brigadier General Abdullah.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |title=Heroism of Bengali policemen in Rajshahi|url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/157441/index.php|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-11|work=New Age|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> He, his driver, and his bodyguard were never seen again since that night.<ref name=":1" /> All India Radio announced his death on 13 April 1971.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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On 14 December 1995, the government of Bangladesh issued stamps in his name and named a road after him in Dhaka.<ref name=":0" /> Shahid Mamun Mahmud Police Lines School and College in Rajshahi was named after him.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rajshahi|first=Shahid Mamun Mahmud Police Lines School and College|title=SMMPLSC{{!}} shahid mamun mahmud police lines school and college rajshahi{{!}} শহীদ মামুন মাহমুদ পুলিশ লাইনস্ স্কুল অ্যান্ড কলেজ {{!}} SMMPLSC Admission|url=https://smmplsc.edu.bd/|access-date=2022-01-11|website=শহীদ মামুন মাহমুদ পুলিশ লাইনস্ স্কুল অ্যান্ড কলেজ}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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{{1971 Bangladesh genocide}}<br />
{{Liberation of Bangladesh}}<br />
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[[Category:1928 births]]<br />
[[Category:1971 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:People from Noakhali District]]<br />
[[Category:People killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Independence Day Award]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani torture victims]]<br />
[[Category:Mukti Bahini personnel]]</div>Bot