Martyred Intellectuals Day today

Today is Martyred Intellectuals Day. The whole country is paying homage to the intellectuals who fell prey to the brutal massacre on this day of 1971.

Renowned journalists, teachers, academics, doctors, engineers and other eminent personalities were dragged out of their homes, blindfolded, and taken to unknown places and then brutally tortured and slaughtered.

Their bodies were later dumped at Rayerbazar of Mirpur and some other killing fields in the capital.

Sensing an imminent defeat, the Pakistani occupation army and their local collaborators carried out the cold-blooded mass murders under a carefully thought-out plan to cripple the emerging Bangladesh intellectually.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals Mausoleum in the morning.

Besides, different socio-cultural and political organizations have chalked out elaborate programmes that include seminars, discussions and wreath-laying at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard and Intellectuals Memorial at Rayerbazar.