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Published : 14 Dec 2025, 06:07 PM
Students have thrown shoes at the Razakar hate monument at Dhaka University on the occasion of the Martyred Intellectuals Day, observed across Bangladesh on Sunday.
On Dec 14, 1971, as Pakistan’s surrender neared during the Liberation War, its forces killed numerous intellectuals.
The throwing of shoes at the monument in front of the DUCSU cafeteria started at 12pm on Saturday. A signature board called “silent hatred” was also put there for the students to write on.
Some wrote famous slogans while some others expressed their wonder at the return of the supporters of genocide back to politics.
Arafat Chowdhury, one of the organisers and a student of law at Dhaka University, said they do not want the future generation to forget about the brutal past of Bangladesh.
“We have come here to hate those who brutally killed our intellectuals in 1971,” said Arafat.
Sufi Hashim, who was not a student but came to the monument to express hate anyway, said he will never forgive the perpetrators of the intellectuals’ killing.
“I don’t consider them Muslim. Muslims can never shoot at people as if killing birds,” he said.
Abu Tayeb Habildar, another organiser, said the hate monument was erected in 2007 in the presence of the sector commanders of the Liberation War. Tayeb was present when the monument was inaugurated.
“I had thought the monument would be forgotten. It seems I was wrong. I am happy to be wrong,” said Tayeb.
On the wall behind the hate monument were pasted photos of Motiur Rahman Nizami, who was convicted of war crimes. Al Badr leaders Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, and General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi.
