1st death anniversary of Prof Dr Humayun Azad Friday

Dhaka, Aug 11 (BDNEWS) – The first anniversary of death of prominent writer Prof Dr Humayun Azad will be observed Friday in the city and at his village home at Rarikhal in Munshiganj.

Different socio-cultural and student organisations have taken up programmes to observe the day with due respect.

The body of Prof Humayun Azad was found in an apartment in Munich in Germany on August 12 last year when he went there on a scholarship from Germany-based international body of writers -- PEN International.

Prof Humayun Azad, a teacher of Bangla Department of Dhaka University, was brutally attacked by unknown assailants in front of Atomic Energy Commission near Bangla Academy while he was returning from the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on February 27 last year.

Prof Azad's family members claimed that Azad's death was not an ordinary case. They reiterated that he was killed in a cunning way by the fundamentalist forces that were opposed to the spirit of the liberation war.

But the government is yet to take any action against the persons who attacked him or connected with his mysterious death.

To mark the occasion, Humayun Azad commemorative committee will organise a meeting and a discussion at the conference room of DU Business Studies Faculty.

Poet Shamsur Rahman will preside and Mohammad Ali will present the keynote paper.

Villagers and Azad's fans organised some programmes at Rarikhal High School where he studied, Prof Azad's family members informed. He was born at Rarikhal in Munshiganj on April 28, 1947.

When contacted, wife of Prof Azad Latifa Kahinoor said her husband was a man of free thoughts and always wrote against the communal elements and for this he had to sacrifice his life.

"But the university authorities are yet to pay heed to my urge for a monument in memory of the deprived writer, who served the university for lifelong," Latifa said.

BDNEWS/1945 hrs