President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led the nation in paying homage to intellectuals who were murdered in Rayer Bazar area just two days before the birth of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971.
They placed wreaths on the Intellectual Martyrs Mausoleum in Mirpur as army buglers played the Last Post, marking the 42nd anniversary of the Martyred Intellectuals Day. The national flag was flown at half mast across the country.
Thousands of people also offered their homage at the memorial. Hundreds of youngsters joined an overnight candlelit vigil in memory of the martyrs. Main opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia too offered wreaths at the memorial.
‘Butcher’ hanging: 10 die in protests
DHAKA: The death toll in violence across Bangladesh triggered by the execution of a top Jamaat-e-Islami leader on Saturday rose to 10, even as Islamists set afire the house of a federal minister in the country’s northwest. Abdul Quader Mollah, known as the ‘Butcher of Mirpur’ for atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war, was hanged on Thursday night after the Supreme Court rejected his review petition. He was the first politician to be put to death for war crimes. Violence erupted at several places soon after his execution, which the Jamaat described as a ‘political murder’.
They placed wreaths on the Intellectual Martyrs Mausoleum in Mirpur as army buglers played the Last Post, marking the 42nd anniversary of the Martyred Intellectuals Day. The national flag was flown at half mast across the country.
Thousands of people also offered their homage at the memorial. Hundreds of youngsters joined an overnight candlelit vigil in memory of the martyrs. Main opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia too offered wreaths at the memorial.
‘Butcher’ hanging: 10 die in protests
DHAKA: The death toll in violence across Bangladesh triggered by the execution of a top Jamaat-e-Islami leader on Saturday rose to 10, even as Islamists set afire the house of a federal minister in the country’s northwest. Abdul Quader Mollah, known as the ‘Butcher of Mirpur’ for atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war, was hanged on Thursday night after the Supreme Court rejected his review petition. He was the first politician to be put to death for war crimes. Violence erupted at several places soon after his execution, which the Jamaat described as a ‘political murder’.