The killings of intellectuals were a well planned strategy to divest a Bangladesh that has just emerged as an independent country of its thinkers, professionals and teachers to cripple its progress.
They were taken to al-Badr torture-camp situated in Mohammadpur Physical Training College. They first inflicted physical pains and then took them to Rayerbazar slaughter house and Mirpur graveyard. In these two places the great minds of Bengal were brutally killed on 14th December just before the defeated Pakistan Army surrendered to the joint command of Bangladesh and Indian army. Thus the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators concluded their ethnic cleansing of the Bengali people in 1971.
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Martyred intellectuals' Day Special, Dec 14, 2011
Martyred intellectuals' Day Special, Dec 14, 2006
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