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Martyred Intellectuals’ Day today

By Staff Correspondent
The nation observes today the Shaheed Buddhijlbi Dibosh' (Martyred Intellectuals' Day) recalling with poignant memory the supreme sacrifice of many of its finest sons murdered by the agents of the Pakistani occupation fdrce before its abject surrender on December 16.
The occupation force of Pakistan brutally killed the leading intellectuals of the country under a blueprint to decimate the best brains of the soil at the fag end of the nine-month-long bloody war of independence in 1971.
On the eve of the final victory. barely 48 hours before the death knell of the occupa tlon force tolled, its notorious agents killed a lot of intellectuals .
The black-hooded Al-Badar and Al-Shams gangsters along with Pakistani secret agents raided the houses of teachers. Journalists, writers, poets, physicians, engineers and other intellectuals from December 9 to December 14 and took them away blindfolded at gun-point and none of them returned to their homes.
On December 16 when the Pakistani occupation force sur rendered, bodies of some of the kidnapped intellectuals were found, at the marshy land of Rayerbazar on the outskirts of the city.
To implement their blueprint to destroy the coun tiy's intellectuajs. the killers slaughtered some of the intel lectuals at a slaughter house at Mirpur. where a memorial has been built in their memory. Bodies of some of the martyrs were never found. The mar tyred intellectuals included Prof Munir Choudhury.
Shahidullah Kaiser. Mofazzal Haider Choudhury. DrG.C. Dev. Jyotirmoy Guha Thakurata. Prof Glasuddin Ahmed. Dr Fazle Rabbi. Anwar Pasha. Sirajuddin Hossain. Altaf Mahmud. Dr Sirajul Haque Khan. Abdul Muktadir. Dr Abul Khaer. ANM Muniruzzaman. Dr Fazlur Rahman. Dr Shaadat Mahe. Ataur Rahman Khadim. Anuddaipayan Banerjee. Rashidul Hassan. Sree S Banerjee. Sharafat Alt. Dr Abdul Karim, Dr Mostafa Muhammad Sadek. Santosh Banerjee. Najlmuddtn Ahmed, Abul Basher and Abul Kalam Azad.
Different political parties, socio-cultural and other organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the day. The Bangladesh Radio and TV will put up special programmes on the occasion.
The day's programme begins at the martyred intellectuals’ memorial at Mirpur, where wreaths will be placed. Discussions will be held on the martyrs and special prayer for the departed souls will be offered.
Teachers, students and members of staff of the Dhaka University will gather at the foot of Aparajeyo Bangla monument at 6.45 am and start for the intellectuals' mausoleum to lay wreaths at 7 am. Vice Chancellor Prof M Muniruzzaman Mtah will lead the team.
At 10 am. a discussion will be held at the Teacher-Student Centre. The Vice Chancellor will be in the chair. Besides, the University authorities have arranged a special prayer after Zohr prayer. On the day. offices of the university will remain suspended from 10 am to 1.30 pm.
Vice-Chancellor of the Jahangirnagar University Prof Kazi Saleh Ahmed along with students will place wreaths at 8 am to pay tributes to the martyrs.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will observe the day through hoisting the national
and party flags halfmast and black flag atop the party central office at 7 am. At 8 am. a gathering of the party leaders and workers will be held at the central office from where they will start for Mirpur memorial to lay wreaths. The party will also hold a discussion on the martyrs at the centra) office at 4 pm.
Awami League will hoist black flag and the national and party flags halfmast atop the party office at 6 am. A gathering of the party leaders and workers will be held at the Bangabandhu Bhaban at 8 am. The central leaders of the party will pay tributes to the martyred Intellectuals by laying wreaths at the Mirpur monument at 9 In the morning.
A discussion meeting under the auspices of Awami League will be organised at the party central office of Bangabandhu AVenue at 3 pm.
The city unit of Jamaat-e-Islami will hold a discussion to mark the day at the Al-Falah auditorium at Maghbazar at 4 pm. Central leaders of the party will address it.
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