Background
Ahmed was born on February 21, 1921 in Kutubpur village of Netrokona district of Bangladesh, which was then a part of British Empire. His father was a farmer and his mother was a housewife.
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Faizur Rahman
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Education
He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1943.
Career
He was killed by Pakistani military personnel. He is well known for being the father of veteran Bangladeshi writer Humayun Ahmed. There was no school in Rahman"s village and he had to move to somewhere else for his primary study.
After completing his Bachelor, he joined a primary school as a teacher.
He joined the police in 1948. He was pasted to Sylhet as a Sub-Inspector of Police and later posted to Dinajpur, Panchagarh, Rangamati, Bandarban, Chittagong, Bogra, Comilla and Pirojpur.
He was promoted to Inspector while he was in Bogra. He was promoted as a Deputy Superintendent of Police and posted to Comilla.
He joined as the Sub-Divisional Police Officer in Pirojpur which was then a sub-division of East Pakistan and participated in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
He was also a writer Faizur Rahman Ahmed joined as a Sub-Divisional Police Officer in Pirojpur. He experienced the disdain of the rulers of West Pakistan after the 1970 Bhola cyclone that affected his area too.
Later when the Pakistan Army cracked down on Bangladeshis in Dhaka on March 25 he decided to join the Bangladesh Liberation War.
On March 27, when he heard the declaration of independence by Ziaur Rahman he distributed around 200 rifles from the armory of Police to the common people as a preparation for the Bangladesh Liberation War. Pakistan Army on their arrival at Pirojpur learnt about the stance of Faizur Rahman on Bangladesh Liberation War.
They called him in the name of a meeting with the help of some police officials who were supporting the Pakistan Army and shot him dead at the bank of the river Baleshwar on May 5, 1971.
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March 5, 1971 (aged 50)