martyred intellectuals

The nation will observe the Martyred Intellectuals’ Day today (Wednesday)  commemorating the  killing of the illustrated sons of the soil  two days before the country’s victory  through a nine month bloody war in 1971. Sensing a humiliating defeat, Pakistani forces with their local collaborators–Rajakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams– picked up leading  Bengali intellectuals and professionals on ... Read more

Martyred Intellectuals’ Day today Syed Badrul Ahsan The wounds remain as fresh as they were four decades ago. The memories of those done to death by the murder squads of the collaborators of the Pakistan occupation forces are, forty years on, as agonising as the moment when we first discovered that they had been abducted, ... Read more