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|name = AFM Mohitul Islam
|office = Personal Assistant to the [[President of Bangladesh]]
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'''AFM Mohitul Islam''' was a [[Bangladesh]] Awami League activist and the personal assistant to the first president of Bangladesh, [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]]. He witnessed the [[Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] and filled the police case in this regard.<ref name="hfxb">{{cite web|title=Mohitul Islam passes away|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/mohitul-islam-passes-away-1275547|work=The Daily Star|accessdate=1 January 2017|date=26 August 2022}}</ref>

==Career==

===Bangladesh Liberation War===
Islam had fought in the [[Bangladesh Liberation war]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bangabandhu murder case plaintiff Mohitul Islam dies|url=http://www.theindependentbd.com/arcprint/details/57600/2016-08-26|work=The Independent|location=Dhaka|accessdate=1 January 2022}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Mujib Bahini]]. He surrendered his arms after the independence of Bangladesh. He joined the government of Bangladesh as an office branch assistant. While carrying files to the president from the chief secretary's office, he was liked by the president. He was transferred as the presidents personal assistant.<ref>{{cite web|title='You'll die and cause our deaths too'|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2016/08/26/youll-die-cause-deaths/|work=Dhaka Tribune|accessdate=1 January 2017|date=26 August 2022}}</ref>

===Assassination===
On 15 August 1975, the President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated by a group of Bangladesh army officers. He was then the assistant to the president and the receptionist at his residence. He witnessed the assassination. In October 1976 he tried to file a case at the Lalbagh Police Station. He was assaulted by on-duty police officers as the assassins were still in power. He was able to file the case on 2 October 1996 when Sheikh Mujib's Awami League. The verdict in the case came in November 2009.<ref name="hfxb" /> The Awami League government nullified the idemnity act which protected the assassins from prosecution.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bangabandhu murder case's plaintiff Mohitul Islam dies|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/bangabandhu-murder-cases-plaintiff-mohitul-islam-dies-1275340|work=The Daily Star|accessdate=1 January 2017|date=25 August 2022}}</ref> Five of the convicted assassins were executed in January 2010.<ref name="fcsb">{{cite web|title=Bangabandhu murder case's plaintiff AFM Mohitul Islam dies at 63|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/08/25/bangabandhu-murder-case-s-plaintiff-afm-mohitul-islam-dies-at-63|website=bdnews24.com|accessdate=1 January 2022}}</ref>

=== Post assassination ===
Islam was injured in the assassination attempt, he fled the hospital to his village home is Jessore but was captured by the army. He was tortured in custody. Sheikh Mujib's APS Shahriar ZR Iqbal had helped Islam get released from custody. He continued his government job, becoming the Director at Directorate of Relief. He was removed from his office in 2002 after the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]-[[Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami|Jamaat-I-Islami]] alliance came to power.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/august-15-special-coverage/ordeals-plaintiff-1269652|title=Ordeals of plaintiff|date=2009-11-19|newspaper=The Daily Star|access-date=2017-01-01}}</ref>

==Death==
He died on 25 August 2016 in [[Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University]], [[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]].<ref name="fcsb" /><ref>{{cite web|title=A look back at those who left us in 2016|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/12/31/a-look-back-at-those-who-left-us-in-2016|website=bdnews24.com|accessdate=1 January 2022}}</ref> He was buried in Kashimpur, [[Manirampur Upazila|Manirampur]], [[Jessore District|Jessore]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bangabandhu murder case plaintiff Mohitul Islam dies|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2016/08/25/bangabandhus-murder-case-plaintiff-mohitul-dies/|work=Dhaka Tribune|accessdate=1 January 2017|date=25 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mohitul Islam laid to rest|url=http://www.daily-sun.com/printversion/details/162404/Mohitul-Islam-laid-to-rest|work=The Daily Sun|accessdate=1 January 2022}}</ref>

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