Martyred Intellectuals Day is the most poignant day in the history of the nation’s independence and fight for freedom. At the moment time, 14 December 1971, is a day of profound sorrow as the nation had lost its most effective intellectuals on the brink of the final victory of the War of Liberation.
At the tip of the nine-month bloodstained liberation battle, when the parents of all of the nation were on the verge of ultimate victory, the contributors of Razakars, Al-Badr, Al-Shams and the Peace Committee indulged in the massacre of intellectuals on that day.
This barbaric act, geared toward depriving the nation of its brightest minds, terrorized every the nation and the enviornment.
Correct two days before the give up of the Pakistani occupation forces, on the shaded night of 14 December 1971, a gang of assassins blindfolded and took about 150 intellectuals and folks of a immense resolution of professions to an unknown location in Dhaka city alone.
That night, under the curfew, teachers, journalists, clinical doctors, engineers, lawyers, artists-litterateurs, cultural workers and high-ranking authorities and private officers were dragged out of their homes by following a list. Later, they were killed and left in the restful, eerie darkness.
The next morning, many ineffective our bodies were viewed lying scattered in the ditches and drains of Mirpur and Rayer Bazar brickyards in Dhaka. Some were killed in bullet firing or tortured inhumanly.
Victims were found with fingers tied in the assist of their backs, and some had their intestines removed with bayonets.
From the nationally printed Martyred Intellectuals Day assortment in 1972, data printed in a quantity of publications, and the write-up of internationally famend journalist Nicholas Tomalin at the international data journal “Newsweek”, the total resolution of martyred intellectuals is as high as 1,070.
All the device thru the long fight for liberation, these intellectuals inspired the motion for independence thru their mind, writings, and imaginative and prescient. Their steering confirmed the traipse to liberation and motivated the nation to fight for justice.
Then again, the anti-liberation forces might possibly well now not tolerate the birth of an impartial Bangladesh and conspired to place away with these perfect minds.
Though 14 December is remembered as the day of the massacre of intellectuals, this most adverse crime in history the truth is began on 10 December. All the device thru the week, the names of luminous and audacious folks regarded one after the other on their list.
First of all, from 10 December, the listed intellectuals were blindfolded and brought from their homes to Rayerbazar and Mirpur killing grounds in the ineffective of night of night and brutally killed.
The first Martyred Intellectuals Memorial turned into as soon as constructed in Mirpur, Dhaka, in memory of the martyred intellectuals. In 1991, the construction of one other memorial named the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial began in Rayerbazar, Dhaka, which turned into as soon as inaugurated on 14 December 1999.
Martyred Intellectuals Day is noticed in a mournful ambiance on 14 December everyone year. The nationwide flag is saved at half-mast in each establish the nation. The dark flag, the symbol of mourning, is hoisted.
Varied political, social, cultural and educated organisations across the nation pay tributes by laying wreaths at monuments, organising milad and doa mahfils, discussions, cultural capabilities, screening liberation battle-based mostly fully documentaries and organizing pictures exhibitions, voluntary blood donation programmes, and describe competitions in memory of the martyrs.
On the event of Martyred Intellectuals Day, the significant particular person to establish wreaths at the Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Memorial might possibly well be the Head of the Suppose, Mohammed Shahabuddin and then the Head of the Govt, Professor Muhammad Yunus.
After that, the relatives of the martyred intellectuals and the battle-wounded and fearless freedom warring parties, led by the Liberation War Affairs Adviser, will lay wreaths at the Mirpur Intellectuals Memorial and the Rayerbazar Killing Ground in the morning. Then, folks from all walks of life will establish of dwelling wreaths at the Intellectuals’ Memorial.
Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television and private TV channels broadcast special programs on today time, highlighting the day’s significance.
Newspapers post special dietary supplements and articles. Varied programs are also organised at the district and upazila levels.
In observance of the day, special prayers are supplied in all mosques, temples, church buildings, pagodas, and other locations of treasure.
