Bangladesh President, PM pay tributes to martyred intellectuals

DHAKA, Dec. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday stood in solemn silence for some time to show respect to the memories of the best sons of the soil when bugle was played last post.
Before that they paid rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals’ Memorial at Mirpur in the capital marking the Martyred Intellectuals’ Day.
Ministers, PM’s advisers, senior Awami League leaders, senior officials and leaders of the front organisations of the party were present.
On the night of 14 December in 1971, two day ahead of Bangladesh’s freedom, over 200 Bangalee intellectuals including professors, journalists, doctors, artistes, engineers, and writers were brutally killed by the Pakistani occupation forces aided by their local collaborators with an evil motive to make the Bengali nation merit less.