Rajshahi varsity\\\'s role in Liberation War recalled

RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, February 24: The teachers, stuffs and students of Rajshahi University (RU) played a glorious role in the independence war of the country in 1971. During the war the university lost a number of its teachers, students and officials.

To pay tribute and recall contribution of these martyrs in the liberation war the authorities set up several monuments and a museum.

On February 18, 1969 the students of the university brought out a protest procession and the police force while took preparation to shoot at the procession the Proctor and the professor of the Chemistry department Dr. Shamsuzzoha laid down his life to save the students from the bullets shot by the then Pakistani law-enforcing agency.  His was buried in front of RU main administrative building.

In 1972 the authority established Shaheed Smriti Sangrahashala which is the first museum of the country on the liberation war.

Sabash Bangladesh is the most attractive monument on liberation war which stands in the university campus. Visitors do not miss the monument when they enter into the main gate of the university.

It is situated on right side of the university Senate building which was designed by eminent artist Nitun Kundu in 1976.

After liberation war, in 1972 an eye-catching Shaheed Minar was built beside the Shaheed Smriti Sangrahashala. The first Shahid Minar was demolished by the Pakistani army on April 14, 1971.

Another memorial establishment is Shaheed Smriti Sthombho-71 that was built on university mass graveyard at the east side of the campus.

After independence, April 23, 72 mass graves were discovered which was the largest in the country and the area of which measures more than 3 acres.

Later in 2003 university authorities built a mass graveyard monument to pay respect to the martyrs at the east side of the campus.

Lastly the authority set up another monuments Bidhargo in front of Shaheed Habibur Rahman hall premises on August 2011.

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