Dhaka, Dec. 14 -- The Martyred Intellectuals Day was observed across the country today with due respect, paying rich tribute to the martyred intellectuals.

The nation recalled the mass killing of a large number of Bangladesh's top brains by the Pakistan army and their collaborators visibly sensing their defeat just two days ahead of the emergence of Dhaka as the free capital of free Bangladesh.

The occupation troops and their Bengali speaking collaborators carried out a systemic killing throughout the nine months of the great Liberation War but the December 14 appeared to be a systematic massacre to expose the new born country to a state of brainlessness. National programmes were chalked out to observe the day in a befitting manner. Dif...