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Martyred Intellectuals Memorial (Bengali: বুদ্ধিজীবি স্মৃতি সৌধ) is a memorial built for the memory of the intellectuals of Bangladesh killed by Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. The memorial, located in Mirpur area of Dhaka[1], was designed by architect Mostafa Ali Kuddus. During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, a large number of teachers, doctors, engineers, poets and writers were killed allegedly by Pakistan Army and Al-Badr and Al-Shams militia, their local collaborators. The largest such incident took place on December 14, 1971.
On December 14, 1971, only two days before surrendering to the Indian military and the Mukhti Bahini forces, the Pakistan army, with the assistance of local Islamist leaders and groups that chose to ally themselves with the Pakistani military and most notably the Al-Badr and Al-Shams, systematically executed well over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals and scholars. Professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, and writers were rounded up in Dhaka, blindfolded, taken to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different sections of the city and executed en masse, most notably at Rayerbazar and Mirpur. Several noted intellectuals who were killed between March 25 and December 16, 1971 in different parts of the country include Dr. G. C. Dev (Philosopher, Professor at DU), Dr. Munir Chowdhury (Litterateur, Dramatist, Professor at DU), Dr. Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury (Litterateur, Professor at DU), Dr. Anawar Pasha (Litterateur, Professor at DU), Dr. Fazle Rabbi (cardiologist), Dr. Alim Chowdhury (ophthalmologist), Shahidullah Kaisar (journalist), Nizamuddin Ahmed (Reporter), Selina Parvin (reporter), Altaf Mahmud (lyricist and musician), Dr. Hobibur Rahman (mathematician, Professor at RU), Dhiren Dutt (politician), R. P. Saha (philanthropist), Lt. Col. Moazzem Hossain (ex-soldier), Mamun Mahmood (Police Officer), and many others. They were killed by the Pakistan Army and/or their collaborators. Even after the official ending of the war on December 16 there were reports of firing from the armed Pakistani soldiers or their collaborators. In one such incident, notable film-maker Jahir Raihan was killed on January 30, 1972 in Mirpur, allegedly by the armed Beharis. In memory of the persons killed, December 14 is mourned in Bangladesh as Shaheed Buddhijibi Dibosh ("Day of the Martyred Intellectuals"),[2][3]
- ^ Mirpur thana, from Banglapedia.
- ^ Shahiduzzaman (December 15, 2005), "No count of the nation’s intellectual loss", The New Age
- ^ Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, "Killing of Intellectuals"
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