The President and the Prime Minister pay their respects to the martyred intellectuals

News Desk: The President paid tribute to the martyred intellectuals. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. At 8:10 a.m. on Monday (December 14), Major General SM Shamim Uz Zaman, his military secretary, paid tribute to President Abdul Hamid at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial.

Her military secretary Major General Naqib Ahmad Chowdhury paid tribute to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Earlier, on the occasion of the day, the President said. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have given separate statements. On this day in 1971, the Pakistani aggressors and their ally Razakar Al-Badr, Al-Shams jointly planned to assassinate the best child intellectuals of Bengal. Just two days before the final victory of the Bengalis, a tragic massacre took place.

They selectively killed countless academics, researchers, doctors, engineers, journalists, poets and writers. Major General Rao Farman Ali, the military adviser to the Governor of East Pakistan, drew up this blueprint to wipe out Bengali intellectuals in East Pakistan. The cadres of Al-Badr paramilitary forces carried out this barbaric massacre under their umbrella with the help of Pak army. Knowing that imminent defeat was imminent, the invading Pakistani forces made this plan to kill the intellectuals in order to make the Bengali nation incompetent. According to the book 'Bangladesh' published in 1972, 991 of the intellectuals were academics, 49 were doctors, 42 were lawyers and 18 were writers, artists and engineers. In this list of intellectuals killed, 202 teachers and 10 lawyers were killed in Dhaka division and 224 teachers and 10 lawyers were killed in Chittagong division.

In Khulna division 260 teachers and six lawyers were killed, in Rajshahi division 282 teachers and 15 lawyers were killed. However, the list did not include the names of university teachers.