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Today is Saturday, December 14,the Martyred Intellectual Day. On that day, the occupied Pakistani forces and their accomplices including Razakar al-Badr, al-Shams, collectively killed the best son of Bengal intellectuals.Just two days later, the assassination and the savage Pakistani forces, led by General Niazi, surrendered on December 16 and Bangladesh emerged as an independent country.
A nationally detailed program has been taken to mark the day. President Md. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will deliver separate speeches.
The killing of intellectuals in the thirty-three lakhs martyrs carry away special significance. They were martyred as part of a far-reaching plan. The invading Pakistani forces plotted to kill the intellectuals in order to exterminate the Bengali nation whereas knowing their defeat was imminent.
Extreme catastrophe is imminent, defeat is almost imminent -than they execute their plan.Enlisted intellectuals were killed. They planned to vanish the future of independent Bangladesh in this way.
However, on March 25, 1971, under the name of ‘Operation Search Light’, there was a concern in the country and outside the country when the Pakistani invading forces killed Bengali people. A fragment of the concern of intellectuals of Kolkata is painted in a famous prose by Shankha Ghosh,a Professor of Jadavpur University.
The trial of many people related to the 1971 war crimes and intellectual killings has been implemented. The death sentence has been announced against many accused of crimes against humanity. Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat, Abdul Quader Mollah has been executed in the murder case against humanity.The execution of Kamaruzzaman and one of the intellectuals murderer, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid has been executed.
During the War of Liberation, with the help of this local ‘Doshor’ al-Badr of Pakistan, kidnapped persons of different professions including teachers, journalists, doctors, cultural workers were taken from the campus of Dhaka University and from different places. Later, they were killed in Rayer Bazar and Mirpur with great agony. The two places are now preserved as slaughterhouses.
In the last days of the War of Liberation, between 10 to 14 December, al-Badr forces captured many more intellectuals and killed them at Rayar bazar Massacre and Mirpur Cemetery after being tortured at the Al-Badar base station established by the Mohammadpur Physical Training Institute.
Among the martyr intellectuals are Professor Munir Chowdhury, Doctor Alim Chowdhury, Professor Muniruzzaman, Fazle Rabbi, Siraj Uddin Hossain, Shahidullah Kaiser, Professor GC Deb, Jyotirmay Ghuha Thakurata, Nizamuddin Ahmed, SA Mannan, ANM Gholam Mostafa, Syed Nazmul Haque, Selina Parvin and many more.
A discussion meeting will be held at all district and upazila levels in the country on the occasion of martyr intellectual day. Bangladesh Betar, Bangladesh Television and other private TV channels will broadcast special events highlighting the significance of the day.
The Awami League’s program includes raising the black flag at the party’s central office, the ‘Bangabandhu Bhaban’ and the offices of the ‘Rashtrapati Bhaban’ in the morning, with the sun rising in the morning, and the lowering of national and party flags. At 8 am, the black flag was lifted at the party’s central office, Bangabandhu Bhaban and the offices of the Patriotic organization and the national and party flags were reduced. At 8:45 am, Bangabandhu Bhavana floated in the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Also on the occasion of the day a discussion meeting was organized at 3 pm in the auditorium of the Agriculturalists Institution.
News Room, December 14,2019
