পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭১৬

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684 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ২৬০৷ বুদ্ধিজীবি নিধন অমৃত বাজার পত্রিকা ১০ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ AM RITA BAZAR PATRIKA, APRIL JO, 1971 MASSACRE OF INTELLECTUALS By Narayan Chaudhury The marauding forces of Yahya Khan let loose on Bangladesh have razad the Dacca University to the ground. It is said that the Rajshahi University also has shared the same fate at the hands of the West Pakistan borders. The grim story of destruction of the Dacca University does not end with the demolition of the buildings including total complex of class rooms, laboratories libraries, students' halls, staff quarters etc., situated inside the campus of the University, side by side with the wanton ravages of this beautiful seat of learning is also reported the almost unbelievable but nevertheless true story of the butchery of about fifty professors who taught in this premier university. These professors among whom there are some top intellectuals of East Bengal, are believed to have fallen to the ballets or mortar fire of barbarous enemy. To those who have seen the Dacca University with its imposing structures and sprawling green lawns spread over a vast area of Ramna and its adjacent neighborhoods the news of its having been destroyed by West Pakistani army action itself must have appeared an inconsolable loss. The loss is rendered many more times unbearable when we hear of the massacre of some of the most distinguished academicians of the university along with its physical ruination. We are shocked beyond measure at the exhibition of this uncalled for savagery by the Pakistani Army, Parallels The grusome tragedy is not of course, without historical parallels. The pattern of the killings and of the circumstances under which these took place brings to mind the bitter memory of the Hitlerite hordes onslaughts on culture and all that it connotes some forty years back. It is all of a piece with the fascist technique of extirpation of intellectual elites of a country in a bid to extort obedience from the multitudes by denying them help and guidance from their leading lights. Islamabad But the clique's calculations are totally wrong. Mad after suppressing a whole people by any means, they are oblivious of the lessons of history. Facists everywhere have met their doom by the very processes they unleashed to crush their opponents. The engines of torture and tyranny set in motion by them as an invariable part of their unscrupulous lust