No headway in making list of martyred intellectuals [ Tritiyo Matra News ]

No headway in making list of martyred intellectuals

Local December 15, 2016

The nation still does not know how many intellectuals lost their lives in the hands of Pakistani occupation army and its local death squads.
It’s regrettable that successive governments in the country took no initiative to prepare the complete list the martyred intellectuals in 45 years since independence, said families of the slain intellectuals and freedom fighters.
They said no one knows how long the nation has to wait to get an exhaustive list of the martyred intellectuals.
In December 2013, liberation war affairs ministry told New Age a comprehensive list of the martyred intellectuals would be prepared soon.
The list of martyred intellectuals would be published by June 2014, liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Huq told parliament on February 6, 2014.
On Friday, he said that the LWA Ministry could not, as yet, prepare the list of martyred intellectuals.
He, however, said that the LWA Ministry collected the names of martyred intellectuals of some of the districts.
He could not say when the list would be ready.
Shaheed Buddhijibi Koshgrantha, published by Bangla Academy, gives a list of 232 intellectuals who were killed by the occupation army of Pakistan and its local collaborators.
It calls the list as incomplete.
According to ‘Bangladesh’, published by the government in 1972, Pakistani occupation army and its local death squads killed 1,109 Bangali intellectuals during the Liberation War.
It says the martyred intellectuals include of 21 university teachers, 59 college teachers, 270 high school teachers, 637 primary school teachers, 50 physicians, 41 lawyers, 13 journalists and 16 others.
Banglapedia says that 1,111 Bangali intellectuals were killed by the occupation army and its local collaborators.
Officials said that the LWA Ministry made little headway in gathering names of the martyred intellectuals.
Officials of the LWA Ministry, created in 2001, said they got no data regarding the martyred intellectuals from the information ministry.
They said that the issue of the martyred intellectuals was handled by the information ministry until the LWA ministry was formed.
An unknown number of Bangali intellectuals picked up from their homes by Pakistani occupation army and its killing squads in the Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams forces towards the fag end of the Liberation War and they never returned.
Facing imminent defeat, the occupation army and its auxiliary forces took to the systematic butcher in the expectation that it would cripple Bangladesh at its infancy.
Buddhijibi Nidhan Tathyanusandhan Committee formed by the government in 1972 compiled a list of 20,000 Bangali intellectuals who were slain by the Pakistani occupation army and its local killing squads.
Liberation war researcher and history teacher Muntassir Mamoon demanded extensive survey to find out the exact number of Bangali intellectuals who were killed by the occupation army of Pakistan and its local cohorts.