On Saturday (December 14), President Md. Shahabuddin paid tribute to the nation's best sons at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Mirpur in the capital at 7 am. After that, Chief Advisor Dr. Muhammad Yunus paid tribute at the memorial at 7:15 am.
They observed a moment of silence while paying tribute. At this time, a four-member contingent of the Bangladesh Armed Forces gave the state salute to the President and the Chief Advisor.
At 7:30 am, members of the families of martyred intellectuals, war wounded and brave freedom fighters, led by the Advisor on Liberation War Affairs, laid wreaths at the Mirpur Memorial and at 8:30 am at the Rayerbazar Massacre Memorial. Then, from 8:30 am, various political and social organizations and people from all walks of life paid tribute to the martyred intellectuals.
On December 14, 1971, two days before the final victory of the great liberation war, the Pakistani occupying forces and their allies brutally killed the country's prominent intellectuals in a conspiracy to demoralize the Bengali nation. More than two hundred talented children, including university professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers and writers, lost their lives that day.
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