BSS, Rangpur :
The genocide of ten intellectuals by the Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators at Dakhiganj’ here on April 4 in 1971 triggered heroism in Rangpur for independence.
According to the freedom fighters of this region, the Pakistani demons with their local collaborators including Razakars, Al-Badars, Al-Shams and Beharis’ caught 11 brilliant sons from the city on March 27 in 1971 from their houses.
The occupation forces with their local non-Bengali Behari collaborators forcibly took them to Rangpur cantonment and conducted barbaric physical torture on these bright sons of the soil causing unbearable pains.
Later in the small hours of April 4 during the War of Liberation in 1971, the Pakistani blood-hungry soldiers and their local collaborators took them to Dakhiganj Shwashan (crematory) in the city and gunned them down. Luckily, one of them, Awami League leader Dr Dinesh Chandra Bhowmick alias Mantu Daktar, who received eight bullets, escaped the horror.
He later joined the Mukti Bahini’ after getting treatments in India and fought for the War of Liberation to liberate the country from the clutches of the occupation forces by killing many enemy soldiers in the war fronts.
The 10 martyrs are: Advocate Mahfuz Ali Zorjes, Durga Das Adhikari, Dhirendranath Shanti Chaki, Khitish Halder, Gopal Chandra, Ehsanul Haque Dulal, Tofazzal Hossain Moharram, Rafikul Islam Rafique, Uttam Kumar Adhikari and Pagla Darbesh.
District unit Commander of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangshad’ Mosaddek Hossain Bablu said the occupation forces killed the ten renowned intellectuals here on April 4 in 1971 to make Rangpur talentless and foil War of Liberation.
The people of Rangpur factually started the War for Liberation from March 3 in 1971 and they became angry when hatred Yahiya Khan cancelled the March 1 scheduled parliament sitting on March 3 and declared curfew on the day.
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with huge hatred rejected cancellation of the scheduled parliament session and called strike on March 2 in Dhaka and March 3 throughout the country.
As per call of Bangabandhu, the whole nation was in unprecedented non- cooperation movement against the Pakistani regime that declared curfew in the then East Pakistan on March 3 in 1971.
On March 3, the people from all walks in the society of Rangpur brought out a huge protest procession from Katchari Bazar point breaking curfew in the city as elsewhere.
Heroic boy Sangku Samajhder, 12, was shot dead by Behari Sarforaz Khan became the country’s first martyr through sacrificing his life on March 3 in 1971 while taking part in the massive non-cooperation movement rally in Rangpur.
The genocide of ten intellectuals by the Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators at Dakhiganj’ here on April 4 in 1971 triggered heroism in Rangpur for independence.
According to the freedom fighters of this region, the Pakistani demons with their local collaborators including Razakars, Al-Badars, Al-Shams and Beharis’ caught 11 brilliant sons from the city on March 27 in 1971 from their houses.
The occupation forces with their local non-Bengali Behari collaborators forcibly took them to Rangpur cantonment and conducted barbaric physical torture on these bright sons of the soil causing unbearable pains.
Later in the small hours of April 4 during the War of Liberation in 1971, the Pakistani blood-hungry soldiers and their local collaborators took them to Dakhiganj Shwashan (crematory) in the city and gunned them down. Luckily, one of them, Awami League leader Dr Dinesh Chandra Bhowmick alias Mantu Daktar, who received eight bullets, escaped the horror.
He later joined the Mukti Bahini’ after getting treatments in India and fought for the War of Liberation to liberate the country from the clutches of the occupation forces by killing many enemy soldiers in the war fronts.
The 10 martyrs are: Advocate Mahfuz Ali Zorjes, Durga Das Adhikari, Dhirendranath Shanti Chaki, Khitish Halder, Gopal Chandra, Ehsanul Haque Dulal, Tofazzal Hossain Moharram, Rafikul Islam Rafique, Uttam Kumar Adhikari and Pagla Darbesh.
District unit Commander of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangshad’ Mosaddek Hossain Bablu said the occupation forces killed the ten renowned intellectuals here on April 4 in 1971 to make Rangpur talentless and foil War of Liberation.
The people of Rangpur factually started the War for Liberation from March 3 in 1971 and they became angry when hatred Yahiya Khan cancelled the March 1 scheduled parliament sitting on March 3 and declared curfew on the day.
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with huge hatred rejected cancellation of the scheduled parliament session and called strike on March 2 in Dhaka and March 3 throughout the country.
As per call of Bangabandhu, the whole nation was in unprecedented non- cooperation movement against the Pakistani regime that declared curfew in the then East Pakistan on March 3 in 1971.
On March 3, the people from all walks in the society of Rangpur brought out a huge protest procession from Katchari Bazar point breaking curfew in the city as elsewhere.
Heroic boy Sangku Samajhder, 12, was shot dead by Behari Sarforaz Khan became the country’s first martyr through sacrificing his life on March 3 in 1971 while taking part in the massive non-cooperation movement rally in Rangpur.
