Name : Mohammad Ruhul Amin

Appellation : Birsreshtho/Virshrestha

 

Profession : Machanical Engineer

Post : Navy Artificer Officer, Pakistan

 

Educational institution : 

SSC, Amishapara High School-1949

 

Award : Birsreshtho Award by Bangladesh Government (Bir Sreshtho, Bangladesh's highest military gallantry award)

 

Father's Name : Mohammad Azhar Patwari

 

Mother's Name : Zulekha Khatun

 

Sibling's : Six

 

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Place of Birth : June 1935, Bagpanchra, Begumganj, Sonaimuri, Noakhali, East Pakistan, British-India

Place of Death : 10 December 1971 Rupsha River, Khulna, Bangladesh

Cause of Death : Misunderstanding Indian Air Force with Mohammad Ruhul Amin warship 'Padma and Palash'. Pakistany Army & Rajakars killed with rifle bayonets while wounded by Rupsa river on the shore.

Burial Place : Buried Rupsa River shore in Bagmara village and a monument was erected there.

 

Birsrestha Mohammad Ruhul Amin in 1953 jointed the Nave as a junior mechanical engineer and was sent for training to Monora Island near Karachi on PNS Karsaaj (a technical School for the Navy). He successfully completed his professional training in 1958, and in 1965 was selected for the mechanical course. On completion of the course. Ruhul Amin was posted as Engine Room Artificer. In 1968 he was transfrred to PNS Bakhtiar Naval Base in Chittagong.

 

With beginning of the War of Liberation in 1971 Ruhul Amin decided to join the war, crossed over to Tripura in April and joined Sector-2. He fought a number of battles till September-1971

 

In September 1971 with the object of setting up the Bangladesh Navy, all members from the Navy were assembled in Agartala and the initial structure of the naval force for Bangladesh was formed. They were then carried to Calcutta along with Ruhul Amin. The Indian government presented two tugboats to Bangladesh Navy. These were transfromed into gunboats by attaching buffer gun and mine pod at the Calcutta Gardenreech Naval workshop. The two gunboats were named as 'Padma and Palash'. Ruhul Amin was posted as Engine Room Artificer of Palash.

 

On 6 December, Padma and Palash and the gunboat Panvel of the allied forces began their journey from Haldia Naval Base, India with the intention of capturing the Pakistan Naval Base PNS. Titumir in Mongla Port. On 8 December they were joined by BSF patrol craft 'Chitrangada' from Arai Banki in the Sundarbans. They entered the Heron Point without any resistance on 9 December in the morning of 10 December they started for the Mongla Port and reached there at 7.00am. The patrol craft Chitrangada took position at Mongla and Panvel, Padma and Palash began to move forward. By 2.00pm they were close to Khulna Shipyard. At that time three fighter aircrafts were spotted high in the sky. When the soldiers in Padma and Palash sought permission to shoot at the aircrafts, the commander of the naval crafts informed that these were Indian aircrafts. The three aircrafts unexpectedly began bombing over Padma and Palash. The commander of the Palash ordered every one to leave the gunboad. But Ruhul Amin stayed back in Palash and tried his best to keep the gunboat active. Suddenly a bomb fell on the engine room of Palash and it was completely destroyed. Ruhul Amin jumped in to the sea and with injury somehow managed to reach the shore. Unfortunately, Pakistani soldiers and some Rajakars who were waiting there, brutally tortured and killed him. His body could not be recovered.

 

Ruhul Amin was awarded the highest state insignia of BIRSRESTHA by the Bangladesh Government in recognition of his valour and sacrifice in the War of Liberation.

 

Legacy and Honor : Ro Ro Ferry Birshreshtha Ruhul Amin was named after him. The Bangladesh Navy waship BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin is named after him. Birshreshtha Ruhul Amin Sarani is a road in Saidpur cantonment, Saidpur, Nilphamari which is named after him. Birshreshtha Shadeed Ruhul Amin Stadium in Chittagong in named after him.

Birshrestha Ruhul Amin's more information coming soon . . . . .

 

Source : Many online portal.