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Tributes to martyred intellectuals

By Staff Correspondent
The nation yesterday paid glowing tributes to the intellectuals who were martyredouly two days ahead of the victory In the War of Liberation.
On December 14. 1971. many of the country's most gifted sons were picked up from their residences by local collaborators of the Pakistani occupation forces and butchered with the evil motive of turning the emerging nation intellectually bankrupt.
In the city yesterday, all roads led to the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur and Rayerbazar mass grave. Grief striken people in their thousands blocked there to pay their respect to the martyrs They placed wreaths by lining
up in long queues.
Prime Minister and Awami - League chief Sheikh Hasina. flanked by party colleagues, garlanded the portrait of Father Of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman early yesterday morning at Bangabandhu Bhaban in the city.
Later at around 7 am. the Prime Minister placed wreaths at the Memorial, at Mirpur in homage to the martyred intellectuals. Bugle played the last post and a smartly turned out contingent of the army gave a gun salute as the premier laid wreaths and stood in solemn silence there for a few minutes.
From Mirpur. Hasina went
to the mass graveyard at Rayerbazar and laid wreaths, offered fateha for eternal peace of the martyrs. Ministers, city mayor of Dhaka and central leaders of AL also placed wreaths.
In the afternoon. Hasina addressed a rally of freedom fighters at the city’s Paltan Maidan.
Earlier, she released a set of 16 commemorative postage stamps for the martyred intellectuals at her official residence in the morning.
BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition in Jatiya Sangsad Begum Khaleda Zia along with central leaders of her party placed wreaths at the Memorial at around nine in the morning.
Speaker Humayun Rashid Chowdhury placed wreaths at 10:30 am.
The organisations that laid wreaths at the memorial include: Praionma-'71, city unit of Awami League. Jatiyatabadi Muktiioddha Dal, Jatiya Sramik League. Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), Krishibid Institution, Dhaka University Teachers Association. BUET Teachers Association. Biman Officers Association, vice chancellors of the Open University and the National University, Bangabandhu College. Bangla Academy. Jatiya Samannoi Committee. Sammilita Sangskritik Jote, Bangabandhu Parishad and various halls of the Dhaka University.
Political parties including Awami League. BNP and Jatiya Party observed the Day through
The organisations and institutions which observed the Day Include Bangla Academy. Shishu Academy. BFUJ. DU J, Dhaka University, National University and Islamic Foundation.
Jamaat-e-Islami. Gano Forum and Jatiya Party (Z-M) also observed the Day.