The spirit of 1971 lives on, and it is up to the present generation to ensure that its promises are fulfilled.

We should use Martyred Intellectuals Day as an opportunity to meaningfully engage with their memories.

The calculated murder of our intellectuals in 1971 has left a permanent wound.

We can do justice to Fardin’s memory by creating a system that makes sense.

The government took a decision in principle to include names of 1,222 people in the martyred intellectuals list.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pay rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals by placing wreaths at Mirpur mausoleum in Dhaka on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day.

We call them our martyred intellectuals. But these brightest sons and daughters of the soil are not recognised as freedom fighters. Their names are not even included in any government record. Worse, 46 years after independence, the government has yet to make a final list of the intellectuals who were victims of such targeted killing in the final hours of the 1971 Liberation War.