B’desh govt approves primary list of 1,222 martyred intellectuals
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By Sumi Khan
Dhaka, Dec 14 (IANS) After 49 years of the Liberation War, the Bangladesh government has approved a primary list of 1,222 martyred intellectuals who made sacrifices for the nation in 1971, a Minister announced.
On Sunday, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huque said the list will be formally released this month.
Huque’s announcement came a day ahead of country observing the Martyred Intellectuals’ Day on Monday.
In separate messages on Sunday, President M. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina , paying homage to the martyred intellectuals.
Huque said the list was approved at the first meeting of the committee formed to compile it.
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Published: 14 Dec 2020 12:46 AM BdST
Updated: 14 Dec 2020 12:49 AM BdST Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan
Family members of intellectuals martyred in 1971 have expressed frustration over the government’s failure to bring back the convicted mass murderers Ashrafuzzaman Khan and Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin from abroad. );
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It has been seven years since the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced the two Al-Badr leaders to death for killing some of Bangladesh s top intellectuals during the Liberation War just two days before the Pakistani forces surrendered.
The government has been “careless” in its response to bring these identified war criminals back to the country to make them face justice, the families of the martyred intellectuals say.
The workers of Pakistan Islami Chhatra Sangha who are spread throughout the nook and corner of the country and who are loyal, sincere and honest Pakistanis, like to serve the nation in this odd hour in the best possible manner.
That s how Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed introduced the members of Islami Chhatra Sangha (ICS), the then student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, to Pakistan s martial law administration as he proposed the formation of Al-Badr during the Liberation War, 1971.
Al-Badr was the fearsome militia which under Mojaheed s leadership traced houses and systematically rounded up, tortured and killed the nation s brightest luminaries academics, litterateurs, journalists, doctors and artists towards the end of the war when Pakistan forces sensed imminent defeat.
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