Martyred Intellectuals Day ( '' Shaheed Buddhijibi Dibôsh '' ) is observed on 14 December in Bangladesh to commemorate those intellectuals who were killed by Pakistani forces and their collaborators during the 1971 Liberation War , particularly on 25 March and 14 December 1971 . The killings were undertaken with the goal of annihilating the intellectual class of what was then East Pakistan . Two days after the events of 14 December , on 16 December , Bangladesh became independent through the surrender of Pakistani forces
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1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals
Martyred Intellectuals Day