Sirajul Haque Khan

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Dr. Sirajul Haque Khan, (Bengali: সিরাজুল হক খান;1924 – 14 December 1971) born in the district of Noakhali, was a Bengali Educationist and martyred intellectual of 1971.[1]

Biography

Khan graduated from college in 1949 and obtained an M. Ed degree from Institute of Education Research, IER, Dhaka University, in 1965. He obtained Ed. D from the State College of Colorado, USA in 1967 and joined IER, DU as a senior lecturer.[1]

On 14 December 1971 a group of Al-Badr members forcibly removed him from his home and murdered him.[1] On 3 November 2013, two Muslim leaders, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, received a death sentence in absentia for his death.[2]

See also

  • 1971 Bangladesh atrocities

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Profiles of martyred intellectuals". The Daily Star. 14 December 2006. Retrieved 7 November 2013. 
  2. ↑ Chowdhury, Syed Tashfin (3 November 2013). "UK Muslim leader Chowdhury Mueen Uddin sentenced to death in Bangladesh". The Independent. Retrieved 7 November 2013. 
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