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This is a day of mourning, a day to shed tears for forced departure of the cream of our intelligentsia whose lives were taken away in the final hours of our struggle for liberty. The patriotic Bangalees – writers, engineers, journalists, teachers were handpicked for summary execution by Pakistani forces and their local collaborators, the death squads operated by the Jamaat-e-Islami, paramilitary forces known as Razakars, al-Badr and al-Shams.
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