Martyred Intellectuals Day: A day of sorrow and grief for lack of nation’s finest sons – Bd24live

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Martyred Intellectuals Day is essentially the most poignant day within the historical past of the nation’s independence and battle for freedom. At the present time, December 14, 1971, is a day of profound sorrow because the nation had misplaced its finest intellectuals getting ready to closing victory of the Conflict of Liberation.

On the finish of the nine-month blodstained liberation conflict, when the folks of all the nation have been on the verge of ultimate victory, the members of Razakars, Al-Badr, Al-Shams and the Peace Committee indulged within the bloodbath of intellectuals on that day.

This barbaric act, aimed toward depriving the nation of its brightest minds, shocked each the nation and the world.

Simply two days earlier than the give up of the Pakistani occupation forces, on the darkish evening of December 14, 1971, a gang of assassins blindfolded and took about 150 intellectuals and folks of assorted professions to an unknown location in Dhaka metropolis alone.

That evening, underneath the curfew, academics, journalists, medical doctors, engineers, attorneys, artists-litterateurs, cultural employees and high-ranking authorities and personal officers have been dragged out of their properties by following a listing. Later, they have been killed and left within the silent, eerie darkness.

The subsequent morning, many lifeless our bodies have been seen mendacity scattered within the ditches and drains of Mirpur and Rayer bazar brickyards in Dhaka. Some have been killed in bullet firing or tortured inhumanly.

Victims have been discovered with fingers tied behind their backs, and a few had their intestines eliminated with bayonets.

From the nationally printed Martyred Intellectuals Day assortment in 1972, information printed in numerous publications and from the write-up of internationally famend journalist Nicholas Tomalin on the worldwide information journal “Newsweek”, the entire variety of martyred intellectuals is as excessive as 1,070.

All through the lengthy battle for liberation, these intellectuals impressed the motion for independence by way of their mind, writings, and imaginative and prescient. Their steering confirmed the trail to liberation and motivated the nation in its combat for justice. Nevertheless, the anti-liberation forces couldn’t tolerate the beginning of an impartial Bangladesh and conspired to eradicate these good minds.

Though December 14 is remembered because the day of the bloodbath of intellectuals, this most heinous crime in historical past really started on December 10. All through the week, the names of clever and brave folks appeared one after the other on their checklist.

Initially, from December 10, the listed intellectuals have been blindfolded and brought from their properties to Rayerbazar and Mirpur killing grounds at the hours of darkness of evening and brutally killed.

The primary Martyred Intellectuals Memorial was in-built Mirpur, Dhaka in reminiscence of the martyred intellectuals. In 1991, development of one other memorial named the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial started in Rayerbazar, Dhaka, which was inaugurated on December 14, 1999.

Martyred Intellectuals Day is noticed in a mournful environment on December 14 yearly. The nationwide flag is saved at half-mast all around the nation. The black flag, image of mourning, is hoisted.

Varied political, social, cultural {and professional} organizations throughout the nation pay tributes by laying wreaths at monuments, manage milad and doa mahfils, dialogue, cultural operate, screening of liberation war-based documentaries and organizing pictures exhibitions, voluntary blood donation programme, and portray competitions in reminiscence of the martyrs.

On the event of Martyred Intellectuals Day, the primary particular person to put wreaths on the Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Memorial can be Head of the State Mohammed Shahabuddin after which Head of the Authorities Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

After that, the members of the family of the martyred intellectuals and the war-wounded and heroic freedom fighters, led by the Liberation Conflict Affairs Adviser, will lay wreaths on the Mirpur Intellectuals Memorial and the Rayerbazar Killing Floor within the morning. Then folks from all walks of life will place wreaths on the Intellectuals’ Memorial.

Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Tv and personal TV channels broadcast particular applications on today highlighting the importance of the day.

Newspapers publish particular dietary supplements and articles. Varied applications are additionally organized on the district and upazila ranges. Particular prayers are provided in all mosques, temples, church buildings, pagodas and different locations of worship in observance of the day.