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Nation vows to safeguard secularism
Pays solemn tribute to martyred intellectuals
Some leaders of Awami League and its affiliate bodies take a huge national flag to the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Rayer Bazar and shower flower petals to pay their respect and mark the Martyred Intellectuals Day yesterday. A number of children joined them. Photo: Rashed Shumon Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh yesterday paid a solemn tribute to martyred intellectuals of 1971 at a time when religious fundamentalist forces were gaining their strength.
On this day, the best sons of the soil made supreme sacrifice just two days before the country got liberated.
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history of Bangalee nation.
intellectuals including academics, teachers, journalists, doctors, engineers
and other professionals were brutally killed with a view to making the nation
intellectually bankrupt.
including the Dhaka University campus in front of their family members,
neighbours and colleagues and they never returned.
‘Al Badar’, the local agents of the Pakistani occupation forces, led by
Major General Rao Farman Ali prepared the list of the intellectuals and
carried out the killing.
December 16, which included Prof JC Dev, Prof Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury, Prof
Munir Chowdhury, Prof Gias Uddin, Prof Muniruzzaman, Prof Anwar Pasha,
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