ATM Amin

ATM Amin was a two star rank Bangladesh Army officer and former Director General of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence and former Director General of Ansar and VDP. He was a celebrated officer, who had given 30 years of excellent and dedicated service to the Bangladesh army. He was forced into retirement in 2009 by the Bangladesh Awami League government.

Career
As Brigadier General he was director of counter-terrorism unit Counter Terrorism and Intelligence Bureau of the DGFI. He represented the army on several international platforms and received many accolades. Later he was promoted to Major General & appointed DG of DGFI. It is stated that under him DGFI tried to create Islamic Democratic Party (IDP) in Bangladesh composed of members of Harakat ul-Jihad-Islami-Bangladesh and that he pressured former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to convince the US government to support the party. It is the then government that wanted to set up an IDP under its agenda to "bring back the misguided to religion". After the US and U.K. Backed out of this project, DGFI under Maj Gen Amin did not allow the party to be registered. In the past after the 2005 Dhaka Grenade attack he was accused and framed as helping one of the suspects escape from Bangladesh with support from DGFI officer Lieutenant Colonel Saiful Islam Joarder and Saiful Islam Duke, the nephew of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. He lost his job and was humiliated.