Sirajul Haque Khan, (1924 – 14 December 1971) born in the district of

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, was a

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educationist and martyred intellectual of 1971.

Education

Khan graduated from college in 1949 and obtained an M.Ed. degree from Institute of Education Research (IER),

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, in 1965. He obtained Ed.D. from the State College of Colorado, United States in 1967 and joined IER, DU as a senior lecturer.

Death and legacy

On 14 December 1971, a group of

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members forcibly removed him from his home and murdered him. His body was found in Mirpur, Dhaka. He was buried in

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. On 14 November 1991,

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issued commemorative stamp with his name and picture. On 3 November 2013, two Jamaat leaders,

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and

Ashrafuz Zaman Khan Ashrafuz Zaman Khan ( bn, আশরাফুজ্জামান খান, ur, ; born February 28, 1948) is one of the convicted masterminds of 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals. In 1971, he was a member of the Central Committee of the I ...

, received a death sentence in absentia for his death.

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References

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