Martyred Intellectuals Day today
Friday, 14 December 2007
The Martyred Intellectuals Day will be observed today (Friday) with the grateful nation paying homage to those illustrious sons of the soil who made the supreme sacrifice at the fag end of the Liberation War, reports UNB.
Sensing an imminent defeat, the Pakistani occupation army and their local collaborators-Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams-abducted frontline Bengali intellectuals and professionals on December 14 in 1971 and killed them to cripple a newborn nation intellectually.
The killers dragged renowned academics, teachers, litterateurs, doctors, engineers, journalists and other eminent personalities blindfolded out of their houses and killed them before dumping the bodies in Rayerbazar, Mirpur and other killing fields.
The martyred intellectuals include Prof Muneir Chowdhury, Dr Alim Chowdhury, Prof Muniruzzaman, Dr Fazle Rabbi, Sirajuddin Hossain, Shahidullah Kaiser, Prof GC Dev, JC Guha Thakurta, Prof Santosh Bhattacharya, Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury, journalists Khandaker Abu Taleb, Nizamuddin Ahmed, SA Mannan (Ladu Bhai), ANM Golam Mustafa, Syed Nazmul Haq and Selina Parvin.
Political, cultural and civil-society organisations will commemorate the tragedy that took place only two days before the surrender of the Pakistani army on December 16 after the bloody war that took a heavy toll of lives of some three million Bengalis.
To mark the day, different socio-cultural and political organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes, including seminars, discussions and wreath laying at Mirpur and Rayerbazar monuments in Dhaka.
The President and the Chief Advisor will place wreaths at Mipur Martyred Intellectuals Mausoleum.
Sensing an imminent defeat, the Pakistani occupation army and their local collaborators-Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams-abducted frontline Bengali intellectuals and professionals on December 14 in 1971 and killed them to cripple a newborn nation intellectually.
The killers dragged renowned academics, teachers, litterateurs, doctors, engineers, journalists and other eminent personalities blindfolded out of their houses and killed them before dumping the bodies in Rayerbazar, Mirpur and other killing fields.
The martyred intellectuals include Prof Muneir Chowdhury, Dr Alim Chowdhury, Prof Muniruzzaman, Dr Fazle Rabbi, Sirajuddin Hossain, Shahidullah Kaiser, Prof GC Dev, JC Guha Thakurta, Prof Santosh Bhattacharya, Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury, journalists Khandaker Abu Taleb, Nizamuddin Ahmed, SA Mannan (Ladu Bhai), ANM Golam Mustafa, Syed Nazmul Haq and Selina Parvin.
Political, cultural and civil-society organisations will commemorate the tragedy that took place only two days before the surrender of the Pakistani army on December 16 after the bloody war that took a heavy toll of lives of some three million Bengalis.
To mark the day, different socio-cultural and political organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes, including seminars, discussions and wreath laying at Mirpur and Rayerbazar monuments in Dhaka.
The President and the Chief Advisor will place wreaths at Mipur Martyred Intellectuals Mausoleum.