President, PM pay homage

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President, PM pay homage

Sun News Desk : President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid tributes to the martyred intellectuals on the occasion of the Martyred Intellectuals Day.

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The president and the Prime minister separately placed wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur.

They stood there in solemn silence for a while as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the illustrious sons of the soil.

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Flanked by the party's central leaders, Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League, laid another wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial as the party chief.

Later, the prime minister talked to the war-wounded freedom fighters and the family members of the martyred intellectuals.

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On the night of December 14, 1971, over 200 intellectuals including educationists, journalists, litterateurs, writers, physicians, scientists, lawyers, artists, philosophers and political thinkers had been picked up in Dhaka by the Pakistani occupation forces, aided by their local collaborators.

The intellectuals were taken blindfold to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different parts of the city and later executed en masse at different killing grounds, most notably Rayerbazar and Mirpur.

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Since then, the day has been observed as the Martyred Intellectuals Day.

Sun News/MR

President rime Minister paid tributes Martyred intellectuals occasion