Munier Choudhury was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident. He was awarded Independence Day Award in 1980, by the then President Ziaur Rahman’s government, posthumously. On 14 December 1971, he, along with a large number of Bengali intellectuals, educators, doctors and engineers, were kidnapped from their houses.
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Munier Choudhury was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident. He was awarded Independence Day Award in 1980, by the then President Ziaur Rahman’s government, posthumously. On 14 December 1971, he, along with a large number of Bengali intellectuals, educators, doctors and engineers, were kidnapped from their houses and later tortured and executed by the Pakistan Army and its Bengali collaborators Al-Badr and Al-Shams. According to a witness, Choud hury was last seen in Physical Training College in Mohammadpur Thana, Dhaka where his fingers were mutilated.
On 18 July 2013, a son, Asif Munier Tonoy Chowdhury, made the statement before the International Crimes Tribunal before the United States, based in London, that his father was directly involved in the forced abduction and killing of 18 people – nine Dhaka University teachers, six journalists and three physicians – in December 1971. On November the same year, both of them were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were found guilty in the abduction and murders of the 18 people.
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