Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Martyred Intellectuals Day
Rezwan remembers that today is "Martyred Intellectuals Day," which remembers the slaughter of Bangladesh's professional and academic elite at the hands of Pakistan during Bangladesh's war of independance.
Brutal.
Sensing their imminent defeat in the Bangladesh's liberation war, the Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators Rajakar, Al-Badr and Al-Sham kidnapped leading Bangalee intellectuals and professionals on December 14, 1971 and killed them only two days before victory at the end of a nine-month long War of Liberation. Renowned academics, doctors, engineers, journalists, teachers and other eminent personalities were dragged blind-folded out of their residences in the city and killed in cold blood to cripple the new-born nation intellectually. Their bodies were dumped at Rayerbazar, Mirpur and some other places on the city's outskirts.
Brutal.
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