My personal grief at the loss of our brightest intellectuals. My father afreedom fighter Ali Aksad was very close with this intellectual group. Some of them are Shahidullah kaiser Chacha, Zahir Raihan Chacha, Dr Allem CXhowdhury, Munir Chowdhury. Publishing the dialy Star’s beautiful homage on this occasion. On this very painful day, we remember and grieve the lives of our brightest intellectuals, mercilessly killed by the Pakistani occupation army and its local collaborators on the eve of victory in 1971. It was a systematic, if desperate, attempt to deal one last blow to the emerging nation: to deny it its intellectual wealth and cripple its progress. And so, between December 12 and 14, they picked up and put to death the luminaries of intellectual world -- our academics, doctors, civil servants, cultural activists and journalists. Although 43 years later, we stand strong as an independent nation, we observe the sad truth that the void their cruel and untimely deaths left behind is yet to be filled. On this day, it is not enough to simply mourn their deaths, if we dont also remember their lives -- their dreams of and sacrifices for a democratic and just Bangladesh. We, individually and collectively, must emulate their unparalleled devotion to the motherland and its people, and draw renewed strength from them to sustain us on our journey toward the creation of a just, egalitarian and secular Bangladesh. Today, as we pay homage to the martyred intellectuals, we are...
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 08:10:23 +0000
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