The nation commemorates tomorrow the intellectuals who embraced martyrdom at the hands of the Pakistani occupation army and its local collaborators on this day in 1971.
An unknown number of Bengali intellectuals were abducted and killed by the occupation army of Pakistan and its local cohorts only two days before the occupation army surrendered.
At the dawn of independence, the discovery of blindfolded and mutilated bodies of many of them in the killing fields across the country shocked the world.
National flag will be at half-mast atop government buildings and educational institutions to mark the day.
Security has been tightened in and around the killing grounds at Rayerbazar and Mirpur in the capital.
Since 1972, the nation has been pressing for bringing the perpetrators to justice.
The infamous Al-Badr and Al-Shams forces, comprising Jamaat’s the then student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha, acted as the Pakistan occupation armys killing squads for the systematic elimination of Bengali intellectuals as Bangladesh’s independence was at hand.
Bangladesh could never overcome the shock.
Found guilty of killing intellectuals as a key leader of Chhatra Sangha and the Al-Badr force, Jamaat leaders Motiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed were executed.
The ruling Awami League, its front orgnaisations and other political parties including BNP have taken programmes to observe the day.
The AL prorammes include placing wreaths at Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard at 7:15 am, placing wreaths at the portrait of founding president of the country Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmandi at 7:45am and placing wreath at Rayer Bazar killing ground at 9:30am.
The party will hold a discussion meeting at Krishibid Institution auditorium at 3:00pm on the day where president of the party and prime minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to be in chair.
In separate messages, president Abdul Hamid, prime minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia paid homage to martyred intellectuals.
An unknown number of Bengali intellectuals were abducted and killed by the occupation army of Pakistan and its local cohorts only two days before the occupation army surrendered.
At the dawn of independence, the discovery of blindfolded and mutilated bodies of many of them in the killing fields across the country shocked the world.
National flag will be at half-mast atop government buildings and educational institutions to mark the day.
Security has been tightened in and around the killing grounds at Rayerbazar and Mirpur in the capital.
Since 1972, the nation has been pressing for bringing the perpetrators to justice.
The infamous Al-Badr and Al-Shams forces, comprising Jamaat’s the then student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha, acted as the Pakistan occupation armys killing squads for the systematic elimination of Bengali intellectuals as Bangladesh’s independence was at hand.
Bangladesh could never overcome the shock.
Found guilty of killing intellectuals as a key leader of Chhatra Sangha and the Al-Badr force, Jamaat leaders Motiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed were executed.
The ruling Awami League, its front orgnaisations and other political parties including BNP have taken programmes to observe the day.
The AL prorammes include placing wreaths at Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard at 7:15 am, placing wreaths at the portrait of founding president of the country Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmandi at 7:45am and placing wreath at Rayer Bazar killing ground at 9:30am.
The party will hold a discussion meeting at Krishibid Institution auditorium at 3:00pm on the day where president of the party and prime minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to be in chair.
In separate messages, president Abdul Hamid, prime minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia paid homage to martyred intellectuals.
Source: New Age
