Today is 14 December. The Martyred Intellectuals’ day. The day we
lost the best children of the soil. The most grieved day of the Bangali
nation. On this day on 1971, when the final victory of the War of
Liberation was sure to happen, at that very moment the attacking
Pakistani forces and their collaborators – the Razakars, Al Badr, Al
Shams forces abducted the best and most talented intellectuals of the
nation - all the academics, researchers, physicians, engineers,
journalists, poets and writers were kidnapped, blind folded in the dark
of night and then were killed brutally.
The anti-liberation forces realized that, their defeat is
inescapable. If these best intelligentsias of the soil are left alive,
they won’t be able to survive in this country. The country will turn
into prosperity and glory from the ruins of the war. So, they master
planned this conspiracy to make the nation talentless and crippled, by
killing the most intelligent personals of in most heinous way possible.
This massacre of 14th December 1971 was the heinous most
barbaric one, which had stunned the peace loving people all around the
world. The Pakistani forces and their local collaborators left the dead
bodies of those intellectuals at many places of Dhaka including Mirpur,
Rayer Bazar etc after killing them brutally.
Right after achieving the victory on 16th December 1971,
the close relatives of the martyred intellectuals discovered the melted
and mishandled bodies at the Mirpur and Rayer bazar graveyard. The dead
bodies carried signs of tortures. They were blind-folded and their hands
were tied at the back. Some of them had more than one bullet shots.
Some were killed with sharp weapons. Most of the bodies were too much
distorted that the relatives failed to recognize their beloved ones.
From the nationally published Martyred Intellectuals Day collection
on 1972, news published on various publications and from the write up of
international journalist Nicholas Tomalin at the international news
magazine “News Week”, the number of martyred intellectuals totaled at
1070.
During post liberation war, in the report of the Investigation Committee for the intellectuals formed on 29th
December of 1971 said, Rao Forman Ali had planned to kill 20,000
intellectuals of the country. But the massacre was not possible to be
carried out according to that master plan. Because the plan of Rao
Forman Ali was to kill the intellectuals by inviting them all to the
government house.
Chief of that Intellectual Investigation Committee Johir Rayhan said
they have sorted out all the democratic minded intellectuals and
attacked them flawlessly.
Convener to that commission was the film maker Johir Rayhan, who himself had been missing since 30th January 1972.
The first Prime Minister to the temporary government to Bangladesh
Tazuddin Ahmed decided to create an investigation commission on 31st December, 1971. But his decision was not carried out later.
According to a document published by the Intellectuals’ Massacre
Investigation Commission, the culprits who were active in this heinous
act were Brigadier Raza, Brigadier Aslam, Captain Tareq, Colonel Taz,
Colonel Taher of Pakistan Army and VC Professor Syed Sajjad Hossain,
Dr. Mohor Ali, ABM Khalek Mojumder, Ashrafuzzaman Chowdhury and
Moinuddin of Al Badr. All of them were led by Major General Rao Forman
Ali.
A description of the list of killed by the local collaborators
to the attacking forces, the Al Badr, from among the best intellectuals
of this land was found from the case filed at Ramna Police Station from
the statement of Farida Banu. She mentioned in the statement of the case
that, his brother Giasuddin Ahmed was the senior lecturer of the
department of history at Dhaka University and was the house tutor to
Mosin Hall. On 14th December the killers searched for him at his
residence adjacent to the hall and then to the hall. They found him in
front of the hall. They folded his eyes with the hand wiper of the guard
of the hall, Abdur Rahman. Afterwards they took him by a microbus of
EPRTC. He never came back.
Killers has gone to the other house tutors too. At that period
the ex Director General of Bangla Academy was the student of that hall.
He witnessed the whole incident. Later they came to know, other than
Giasuddin Ahmed from among the teachers of Dhaka University, the Al Badr
took Dr. Mohammad Murtoza, Dr. Abul Khayer, Professor Rashidul Hasan,
Proessor Anwar Pasha, Professor Sirajul Haque and Dr. Santosh
Bhattacharya and many others.
Son of the martyred intellectual Professor Sirajul Haque,
Enamul Haque identified two of the abductors. They were Chowdhury
Moinuddin and Ashrafuzzaman. Both of them were then students of
university. Among them Ashrafuzzaman were working as journalist at the
Observer. After the country is liberated, Farida Banu left the residence
at the university and took a rented apartment at Azimpur.
On 4th January 1972 she with her relatives found melted corpse
of many intellectuals including Dr. Murtoza, Dr. Abul Khayer and Dr.
Santosh Bhattyacharya.
On 5th January, she found her brother, Giasuddin Ahmed’s melted
dead body near the current Martyred Intellectuals’ Monument. She
recognized him by the lungi and the clothing he was wearing. The alleged
criminals under the intellectuals massacre case, Chowdhury Moinuddin is
living in London and Ashrafuzzaman in New York.
Every year the nation observes this day with congruous honor
and respect comemorating the intellectuals. This year too, govt has
taken many programs in schedule to observe this day. And various
political, social and cultural organizations also have taken different
programs.
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