Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said that the massacre of intellectuals was the most heinous revenge of anti-liberation forces on the eve of country's victory in 1971.
In a message on the eve of the Martyred Intellectuals Day on Friday, Professor Muhammad Yunus said the anti-liberation forces on the eve of the victory of the Bengali nation, abducted and brutally killed country's intellectuals, including educationists, journalists, writers, doctors, scientists, lawyers, artists, engineers, philosophers and political thinkers.
The Chief Adviser said: "The anti-liberation forces took the most heinous revenge for their defeat in the Great Liberation War through this planned massacre with an objective to demoralize the Bengali nation."
Mofazzal Haider Chowdhury, Munier Chowdhury, Anwar Pasha, Shahidullah Kaiser, Giasuddin, Dr Fazler Rabbi, Abdul Aleem Chowdhury, Sirajuddin Hossain, Selina Parveen, Dr Jyotirmoy Guha Thakurta and many more were among the victims of their brutality.
The Chief Adviser paid glowing tributes to the memories of the martyrs of the Liberation War including the martyred intellectuals and prayed for the eternal peace of the departed souls.
