○○br বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : অষ্টম খন্ড THE AMRITA BAZAR PATRIKA December 20, 1971 CALCULATED LIQUIDATION OF INTELLECTUALS BEFORE SURRENDER (Despatch by Arun Bhattacharjee from Dacca Secretariat, December 19, 1971) The Secretary-General, Ruhul Quddus, of the Bangladesh Government, harshly accused the Pakistani army generals of calculated liquidation and mass murder of the intellectuals of Dacca before surrender. Mr. Quddus was in tears when he said that the best doctors, professors, administrators and intellectuals of Bangladesh were killed to cripple Bangladesh. When I pointed out that Pakistani Army General Farman Ali and his staff were saying that these were done by the para-military forces and the Razakars, he said, “I know with certainty that the plan to liquidate them was hatched by these Generals in Dacca cantonment, and on their specific orders, the para-military forces arrested them and killed them inside the cantonment”. THE TIMES London, December 30, 1971 INTELLECTUALS BUTCHERED BEFORE SURRENDER Peter Hazelhurst No one will ever know haw many intellectuals, doctors, journalists and young men, most of whom were not involved in politics, were rounded up and herded off to disappear for ever. Mrs. Moshina Pasha, the wife of Prof. Anwar Pasha, Assistant Professor of Bengali at Dacca University, if at present visiting the big pits in which the mutilated bodies of Bengali intellectuals were discovered to identify the body of her husband. Like many others, Prof. Pasha was taken away two days before the Pakistanis surrendered to the Indian army and driven to a razakar-execution camp. Two colleagues, Mr. Rashidul Hasan, Lecturer in the Department of English, and Professor Santosh Bhattacharya, Professor of History, were rounded up on the same morning by the same group of armed razakars. The Pakistani prisoners-of-war maintain that they know nothing about the atrocities, but evidence has been produced alleging that the razakars were acting under the direct orders of a senior officer. A memorandum discovered on his desk is said to have contained the name of one victim, Mr. Nizamuddin, with the comment “motivated stories”; Mr. Niamuddin’s name was ticked off.
