Salimullah Khan yesterday said the task of intellectuals is to realise consent for the state. They constitute the civil society while the organ functioning as political society realises coercion.
The head of state placed a wreath at the memorial at 6:59am. The chief adviser followed, placing his wreath at 7:15am
We should use Martyred Intellectuals Day as an opportunity to meaningfully engage with their memories.
The nation today observes Martyred Intellectuals’ Day, recalling the ultimate sacrifice of the leading intellectuals killed systematically by the Pakistan occupation army and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has put on hold its initiative to prepare a comprehensive list of martyred intellectuals, who were brutally killed by Pakistani military forces with the help of local collaborators in 1971, creating uncertainty over the completion of such a list.
“Knock! Knock!! Knock!!! Sir, please come outside, we need to talk.”
The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has announced a package of programmes to commemorate Shaheed Intellectuals' Day and Victory Day
The relevance of Munier’s work today is owing to how he related with his language, Bangla.
The calculated murder of our intellectuals in 1971 has left a permanent wound.
The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has announced a package of programmes to commemorate Shaheed Intellectuals' Day and Victory Day
The relevance of Munier’s work today is owing to how he related with his language, Bangla.
The calculated murder of our intellectuals in 1971 has left a permanent wound.
A short film named “Diary of a Genocide” was released on 14th December 2022, Martyred Intellectuals Day. This 4-minute and 26-second-long film is based on the historic incident of 14th December during the Liberation War in Bangladesh. On this day, Pakistani rulers, with the help of Razakars, Al-Badrs, and Al-Shams created a blueprint to destroy Bangladesh’s (then-East Pakistan’s) intellectual foundation and render the country metaphorically paralyzed. An unexplored horror-map, the treachery of how these intellectuals were abducted is still shrouded, this movie offers a visual picture of this little-known chapter of history.
It was the morning of November 15, 1971. After a two-day weekend, Dr Azharul Haque, a surgeon of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, was in a hurry to go to his hospital. As there was a curfew in place, he called up the hospital authorities to send an ambulance to take him to the office.
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid tributes to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Mirpur this morning, marking Martyred Intellectuals Day.
Martyred Intellectuals Day is being observed to commemorate the intellectuals killed by Pakistan occupation forces and their local collaborators just before the end of the Liberation War.
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pay rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at Mirpur mausoleum in Dhaka on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reasserts that the trial of war criminals will go on and there is no force in this world that can stop it.
BNP, Jatiya Party and the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh in their official statements marking the Martyred Intellectuals Day did not mention Pakistan army and their local collaborators who spearheaded the killing of the intellectuals.
