BSS, Dhaka

The nation today observes Martyred Intellectuals Day, recalling the ultimate sacrifice of the leading intellectuals killed systematically by the Pakistan occupation army and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

The day marks one of the most tragic days in the country’s history, when renowned academics, doctors, engineers, journalists, artists, and other eminent personalities were dragged out of their homes in the capital and killed in cold blood.

Sensing the imminent defeat, the Pakistani occupying army and their local collaborators abducted the luminaries

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