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| {{Infobox military person | |||
| |name= Flight Lieutenant, Matiur Rahman (Shaheed) | |||
| |birth_date=October 29, 1941 | |||
| |death_date= August 20, 1971 | |||
| | alias = | |||
| |birth_place= ], ] | |||
| |death_place=] | |||
| |image=] | |||
| |caption=] , Matiur Rahman ] | |||
| | origin = | |||
| |allegiance= ] | |||
| |rank=Flight Lieutenant | |||
| |unit= ] | |||
| |battles= ] | |||
| |awards= Bangladesh ] Award | |||
| }} | |||
| ==Education and career== | |||
| He had received his primary education at ] where he was given training to fight in the ]. Next he was admitted into ] in ]. After completing his twelfth class course there, he entered the ]. He was commissioned on 22 June 1963 in the 36th GD(P) Course and was posted at ], West Pakistan. He successfully completed the Jet Conversion Course in ] before he was appointed a Jet Pilot in ]. | |||
| ==Death== | |||
| On August 20, 1971 he attempted to hijack a ] trainer from ], ] to ] in order to defect from the ] and join the Liberation movement of ]. The T-33 aircraft was code-named 'Bluebird'. However, Matiur Rahman could not fly the plane out of the West Pakistani territory due to air restrictions ordered by the government of Pakistan. The plane crashed in Thatta, 40 kilometres near the ]n border line due to the struggle to regain control of the plane after the Pakistani Air Control disabled the plane's computer systems. His body jiski bund main plane ki tail thi, which was found near the crash site where he was buried at the military graveyard at Masroor Air Base.<ref name="burial"></ref> Matiur's widow, Milly, and his two infant daughters were imprisoned for a month by Pakistan Air Force, and were released on September 29, 1971.<ref name="dstar">, ], June 25, 2006.</ref><ref>Rahman, Milly, ''Bir Shreshtho Matiur Smarak Grantho'', Agami Prokashoni, Dhaka, 2005. pages 70-73.</ref> | |||
| ==Grave transfer== | |||
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| After over 30 years of negotiations, Motiur's body was finally returned to Bangladesh on June 24, 2006 for a ceremonial and highly symbolic reburial in 2006. President. General. Musharaff ordered the transfer of Flt Lit Matiur Rahman from Pakistan and into Bangladesh. He was buried at the Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard, in Mirpur, Dhaka, with full military honours.<ref name="dstar" /> His original burial in a nondescript grave in Pakistan had been a sore point between Bangladesh and Pakistan for decades. | |||
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| == See also == | |||
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| {{Bir Sreshtho}} | |||
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| | NAME =Rahman, Matiur | |||
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| | DATE OF BIRTH = October 29, 1941 | |||
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| | DATE OF DEATH = August 20, 1971 | |||
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