Al-Badr perpetrated atrocities against civilians during the war of 1971 , in particular , the massacre of intellectuals in Dhaka that occurred on 14 December 1971 . They then dumped the bodies in the Rayer Bazaar area of Dhaka . According to journalist Azadur Rahman Chandan , Al-Badr was experimentally launched in Jamalpur , Mymensingh on April 1971 as a voluntary force with Islami Chhatra Shangha activists as its first recruits to wage war against the nationalist fighters . They were enlisted and trained under the guidance of Mohammad Kamaruzzaman , the assistant secretary general of Jamaat
massacre of intellectuals
1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals
Al-Badr (East Pakistan)