Martyred Intellectuals Day Today

The coldly morning of December 14 in 1971, the sound of diesel engine broke the silence at the teacher's headquarters on the road of Dhaka University.

A smaller bus of East Pakistan Road Transport Corporation, involved with clay, banned there around about 8:00 am. A team of seven to ten people got off the bus who were all armed. They claimed direct at the third floor of the doorbell of flat 16-H.

"Is it the Room of Serajul Haque khan," politely asked standing at the door in Bangla with clear voice. The others waited behind in the stairway. 

"Yes", replied Serajul's younger brother Shamsul Haque Khan nervously.

The next question was, "Is he inside? "

Confounded Shamsul replied, "He is on the ground floor at Dr. Ismail's home."

Then, the men went down to ground floor and with a few minutes took him to the minibus blindfolded.

Serajul Haque Khan was an assistant professor of Institution of Education and Research of Dhaka University. He never came back home like the great of brightness and illustrious citizens who were tortured and killed just days before Bangladesh got freedom.

When the collaborators of Bangalee  could be realized their nearest of defeat, specially the Al- Badar executed the Pakistan Army's plan to remove teachers, writers, doctors and journalists and others occupational.

This acts of cruelty was brought to damage the future of the nation to maim permanently. 

" I think the killers have been successful in many ways. They made a vacuum to all places in our national life. We are still struggling to fulfill the vacuum later many years", said Enamul Haque,  the son of Serajul Haque Khan.

The son of Serajul also said, "In spite of being a teacher of the education administration, he used to talk against the discriminatory policy of the Pakistan government at that time. The ruler of Pakistan took as a threat to the identity of Pakistan. "

That's why, I think that my father became the target of Pakistan army and their collaborators. 

Professor Munier Choudhury, Mufazzal Hyder Chowdhury, Shahidullah Kaiser, Selina Parveen, Abdul Alim Chowdgury and many other intellect citizens met the same luck as Serajul.

Their fault was only that they promoted and encouraged the idea of nationalism by speaking and writing during the war of the freedom fighters.

On that morning, they came to know that many teachers and physicians were abdicated from the campus in similar way.

Enamul's family couldn't go for out for Serajul due to curfew.

After finishing curfew,  surrounding of Pakistan army on 16 December, Enamul, his friends and his colleagues hired a vehicle to look for him and others abducted intellectuals.

They searched their dead boody bud did n't find here and there. Their family had been hopeless about it.

Then Enamul's family went to his father's friend,  Mafizzuddin. Mafizzuddin was driving the minibus of Al - Badar.

He said, " The abductors took them Mirpur Lohar Pool to shoot them and their dead bodies threw into the river of Turag."

The abductors also walked some of them to the graveyard until they reached a paddy field and shot them dead where was built the Martyred Intellectuals' Memorial after liberation .