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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician and Freedom fighter}}
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|office = Member of Parliament
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'''Kazi Aref Ahmed''' ({{lang-bn|কাজী আরেফ আহমেদ}}) was the President of [[Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal]] and one of the organizers of Bangladesh Liberation war.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kazi Aref remembered |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-269551 |accessdate=25 November 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=18 February 2013 |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
Ahmed was born in 1948.<ref name="book">{{cite book |title=Selections from Regional Press |date=1999 |publisher=Institute of Regional Studies |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tsAuAQAAIAAJ&q=Kazi+Aref+Ahmed |accessdate=25 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
Ahmed was a founding member of the Swadhin Bangla Biplobi Parishad along with [[Serajul Alam Khan]] in the 1960s. They wanted Bangladesh to become an independent country and joined Awami League to work towards that goal. He served as the president of Dhaka unit of [[Chatra league]].<ref name="book" /> On 2 March 1971, he along with other student leaders raised the flag of independent Bangladesh in Dhaka University.<ref>{{cite book |title=Bangladesh Quarterly |date=1998 |publisher=Department of Films & Publications, Government of Bangladesh |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EqdQAQAAMAAJ&q=Kazi+Aref+Ahmed |language=en}}</ref> He fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war and served as a commander.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wahab |first1=A. T. M. Abdul |title=Mukti Bahini wins victory: Pak military oligarchy divides Pakistan in 1971 |date=2004 |publisher=Columbia Prokashani |isbn=978-984-713-044-6 |page=168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nDpuAAAAMAAJ&q=Kazi+Aref+Ahmed |language=en}}</ref>

Ahmed was one of the founders and organizers of Nirmul Committee which demanded a war crimes tribunal for war crimes committed during Bangladesh Liberation war.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mukul |first1=Kazi |title=Pictorial history of Nirmul Committee's movement |date=2004 |publisher=Committee for Resisting Killers & Col[l]aborators of Bangladesh Liberation War of '71 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XIMAQAAMAAJ&q=Kazi+Aref+Ahmed |language=en}}</ref> He served as the President of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kazi Aref's anniversary of death today |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-222656 |accessdate=25 November 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=16 February 2012 |language=en}}</ref>

==Death==
Ahmed was attending a rally of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal on 16 February 1999 in Kalidaspur Government Primary School, Kalidaspur, [[Daulatpur Upazila, Kushtia|Daulatpur Upazila]], [[Kushtia District]]. The rally was attacked by Purbo Banglar Communist Party, who killed Ahmed and four other politicians of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal. On 30 August 2004, 10 people were sentenced to death and 12 were sentenced to life-imprisonment. In 2016, three of the convicts were hanged.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kazi Aref murder: 3 killers hanged |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/kazi-aref-murder-3-killers-hanged-198880 |accessdate=25 November 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=8 January 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Convicted killers of Kazi Aref, 4 others still absconding |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-23628 |accessdate=25 November 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=16 February 2008 |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:12122009 Kazi Aref Ahmed grave photo RanadipamBasu.jpg|thumb|Grave of Ahmed in Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard, Mirpur]]

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