President, CA pay homage to martyred intellectuals
After paying the homage, the chief adviser and the president also exchanged greetings with the injured brave freedom fighters and other people who came to pay respect to the martyred intellectuals.
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and President Mohammed Shahabuddin paid tributes today (14 December) to the martyred intellectuals marking the Martyred Intellectuals Day.
Shahabuddin placed the wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur at about 06:59am to pay tributes to those who were brutally killed just two days before Bangladesh's final victory in the War of Liberation in 1971.
The chief adviser paid homage by placing a wreath at the memorial around 7:15am.
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They stood there in solemn silence for a while as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the illustrious sons of the soil.
A contingent of the Bangladesh Armed Forces offered a state salute while the bugle played the last post.
After paying the homage, the chief adviser and the president also exchanged greetings with the injured brave freedom fighters and other people who came to pay respect to the martyred intellectuals.
At the end of the liberation war, the brilliant minds of the soil were killed in a bid to make cripple the newly emerging Bangladesh intellectually.
