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{{Infobox person
|name=Humayun Kabir Balu
|birth_date= {{birth date|1947|10|4|df=y}}
|birth_place=Itna village, [[Narail District]], [[East Bengal]], [[Pakistan]]
|death_date={{death date and age|2004|6|27|1947|10|4|df=y}}
|death_place=[[Khulna]], [[Bangladesh]]
|occupation=Journalist,Politician,freedom fighter
|spouse=Late Akter Jahan Ruma (1976-1984), Late Ara Kabir (1986-2001)
|children= Asif Kabir<br/>Husna Meheruba<br/>Ashik Kabir
}}

'''Humayun Kabir Balu''' (4 October 1947{{snd}}27 June 2004) was a Bangladeshi journalist.<ref name=death1>{{cite news|url=http://en.rsf.org/bangladesh-humayun-kabir-balu-07-06-2004,10897.html |title=HUMAYUN KABIR BALU |date=June 7, 2004 |publisher=Reporters Without Borders |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629185115/http://en.rsf.org/bangladesh-humayun-kabir-balu-07-06-2004%2C10897.html |archivedate=June 29, 2015 }}</ref> He was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2009 by the Government of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1650483691.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924203215/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1650483691.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 24, 2015|title=PM to give Ekushey Padak today|date=February 20, 2009|publisher=The New Nation}}</ref>

==Career==
Balu was the editor of ''Dainik Janmbhumi''.<ref name=death>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/06/28/d4062801011.htm|title=Khulna editor bombed to death by outlaws|publisher=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]]|author=Quazi Amanullah|date=June 28, 2004|accessdate=June 27, 2022}}</ref> He was the president of Khulna Press Club in 1984, 1998 and 2003. He became the vice-president of Khulna Zonal Newspaper Editors' Association in 1990 and a member of Mongla Port Authority in 1998.

In 1976, Balu was elected publicity secretary of [[Bangladesh Awami League|Khulna City Awami League]].
Balu was very active in politics before the independence of Bangladesh. He even went to jail for participating in liberation movement during the Pakistan rule in Bangladesh. He took active participation as a freedom fighter. He was the first person to hail the flag of newly born Bangladesh in the southern city of Khulna.

In 2004, Balu was killed in a bomb attack in front of his own house after coming from his mother's house while entering the house getting down from the car with his three children in [[Khulna City]].<ref name=death/>

In 2020, five members of [[Purbo Bangla Communist Party]] were sentenced to life in prison for killing Balu.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Correspondent|first=Khulna|last2=bdnews24.com|title=Five sentenced to life in prison on explosives charges in killing of Khulna journalist Balu|url=https://bdnews24.com/media-en/2021/01/19/five-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-on-explosives-charges-in-killing-of-khulna-journalist-balu|access-date=2021-01-18|website=bdnews24.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-18|title=Journalist Humayun Kabir murder: 5 sentenced to life in explosives case in Khulna|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/law-our-rights/news/journalist-humayun-kabir-murder-5-sentenced-life-explosives-case-khulna-2029909|access-date=2021-01-18|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

==Awards==
* President's Award (1992)
* Gold medal of Dr Ashraf Siddiqui Foundation (1993)
* [[Ekushey Padak]] (2009)

==References==
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[[Category:People from Narail District]]
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