The 1971 Killing of Intellectuals: Al-Badr's Final Atrocity

In the final weeks of Bangladesh's Liberation War, as Pakistani forces collapsed, a shadowy militia turned on the country's brightest minds. This episode reconstructs the December 1971 abduction and murder of professors, doctors, and writers in Dhaka — the systematic campaign that came to be known as the killing of intellectuals. We follow the Al-Badr death squads, their ties to Jamaat-e-Islami, and the desperate attempts by families and the Red Cross to save the condemned. We look at the role of collaborators like Ashrafuzzaman Khan and the post-war trials that struggled to deliver justice. Through the eyes of survivors and the haunting testimony of the Rayerbazar killing fields, we ask what it means for a nation born from such sacrifice to confront its darkest hour. This is the story of a genocide within a genocide, and the long shadow it cast over Bangladesh's first years of independence.

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