On the Martyred Intellectuals Day, Chief Adviser to the interim government, Professor Muhammad Yunus, has called on everyone to unite and resist any conspiracy of the anti-liberation forces and fulfill their responsibilities from their respective positions.
He made this call in a message given today (December 13) on the occasion of the 'Martyred Intellectuals Day' tomorrow, Saturday (December 14).
Expressing deep respect for the martyred intellectuals and the heroic martyrs of the Liberation War and praying for peace and forgiveness for their departed souls, Professor Muhammad Yunus said, 'Martyred Intellectuals Day is a shameful day in the history of Bangladesh. In the last days of the great liberation war, the Pakistani occupying forces and their allies, knowing that their defeat was certain, brutally killed Bengali intellectuals to demoralize Bangladesh. He said that on the eve of the victory of the Bengali nation, the anti-liberationists brutally killed and disappeared the country's talented children, including educationists, journalists, writers, doctors, scientists, lawyers, artists, engineers, philosophers and political thinkers. Among them were Dhaka University teachers Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury, Munir Chowdhury, Anwar Pasha, Shahidullah Kaiser, Giasuddin, Dr. Fazle Rabbi, Abdul Alim Chowdhury, Sirajuddin Hossain, Selina Parveen, Dr. Jyotirmoy Guha Thakurta and many others. Advertisement
The Chief Adviser said that their main objective was to demoralize the Bengali nation, and that the anti-liberationists took the most heinous revenge for the defeat in the great liberation war through this planned brutal massacre.
The Chief Adviser also said that the interim government formed through the mass uprising of students, workers and the public is committed to building a developed, prosperous and well-governed Bangladesh.