| The Brave Martyrs for Bengali |
The exact
number of death in the Language Movement and especially on the day of 21st
February has never been recovered. This was due to the government’s effort to
conceal the actual numbers of casualties and to control the consequences and
reactions of the aftermath. Several witnesses confirmed that the police picked
up some dead bodies from the streets. At midnight, soldiers of the Pakistan
Army seized some bodies from the Morgue at Dhaka Medical College. The bodies
left at the morgue were not counted then and this also included the injured
people who died at the hospital later.
Some of the Martyrs
However, during the midst of the curfew, two brave students
of Dhaka Medical College dared to follow army personnel who had seized some bodies.
As a result, the graves of those martyrs were discovered and till today, we
are able to continue to pay our respects to the fallen who were buried in
Azimpur graveyard.
However death of 8 Brothers has been confirmed with/without
identification. They are; |
| Martyrs > |
Abdul
Jabbar
 |
Rafiquddin
Ahmed
 |
Abul Barkat
 |
Abdul Awal
|
Shafiur
Rahman
 |
Abdus Salam
 |
| Age |
33 yrs |
26 yrs |
25 yrs |
26 yrs |
34 yrs |
27 yrs |
| Martial status |
Married |
Bachelor |
Bachelor |
Bachelor |
Married |
Bachelor |
| Father's Occupation |
Farming |
Press Business |
Un known |
Un Known |
Superintend, Post and telegraph office |
Un known |
| Own Occupation |
Job |
Press Business |
Student |
Rickshaw puller |
Staff,
Dhaka High court |
Peon, Director of Industries,
Dhaka |
| Educational Qualification |
Junior school |
Intermidiate |
Masters Student,
Political Science |
Unknown |
Law dept. student, D.U |
Un known |
Address
Permanant/ Local |
Pachua, gafargaon,
Maymensingh |
Baldhara,
Manikjang |
Babla,
Murshidabad |
19, Hafizullah road, Dhaka. |
Konnogar,
Chobbis Porgona, West Bengal/ Roghunath Das Lane, Dhaka. |
Lakhmipur, Feni
/ 36 B Nilkhet barak, Dhaka. |
Another Young boy (Identification unknown) along with Abdul Awal, were run down by
Military Truck on 22nd February 1952. Military government press note said that the event
'might have' been an accident but the reports were never published.
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