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Badhya
Bhumi
Smriti
Soudha
(Slaughter-place
Memorial)
was
built
to
commemorate
the
death
of
some
of
the
nation's
finest
intellectuals
and
others,
who
were
killed
at
the
very
end
of
the
war
of
liberation
(1971)
by
the
Pakistani
army
with
the
help
of
their
collaborators
at
Rayer
Bazar
brick
field
of
Dhaka.
The
memorial
edifice
was
constructed
at
the
place
where
the
mass
killing
took
place.
Among
the
people
killed
indiscriminately
were
educationists,
physicians,
journalists,
writers,
film
directors
and
other
professionals.
In
1993
Government
of
Bangladesh
decided
to
erect
a
memorial
at
the
site
of
this
barbarous
act.
The
Ministry
of
Housing
and
Works
Department
and
the
Institute
of
Architects
Bangladesh
jointly
organised
a
national
level
architectural
competition
for
the
design
of
the
memorial.
Out
of
22
entries
the
jurors
selected
the
design
proposal
of
Architect
Farid
Uddin
Ahmed
and
Architect
Md
Jami-al-Shafi.
Public
Works
Department
was
responsible
for
the
implementation
of
the
project
and
its
completion
took
about
three
years
(1996
to
1999).
A
square
grid
of
15.24m
by
15.24m
has
divided
the
whole
site
of
3.51
acre.
The
main
platform
is
raised
2.44m
above
the
street
level.
The
main
element
of
the
monument
is
the
17.68m
high,
0.91m
thick
and
115.82m
long
curved
brick
wall,
representing
the
original
brickfield
of
Rayer
Bazar
where
the
dead
bodies
were
found.
The
wall
itself
is
broken
at
the
two
ends,
demonstrating
the
depth
of
grief
and
sorrow.
A
6.10m
by
6.10m
square
window
at
the
south-west
side
of
the
wall
permits
visitor';s
view
to
reach
the
sky
behind,
that
also
scale
down
the
immense
wall.
In
front
of
the
curved
wall
is
a
still
water
body
from
which
rises
a
black
granite
column,
which
represents
grief.
The
main
entry
to
the
memorial
is
at
the
southeast
corner
of
the
site
that
places
the
visitor
in
front
of
a
Banyan
tree.
This
tree
represents
the
original
Banyan
tree
at
the
nearby
Physical
Education
College
where
the
martyrs
were
tortured
first
and
then
brought
to
this
brickfield
to
be
killed.
Apart
from
the
Banyan
tree,
which
is
evergreen,
all
the
other
trees
used
in
the
landscaping
are
deciduous.
They
remain
leafless
during
the
month
of
December
and
this
adds
to
the
sense
of
grief
during
the
Intellectuals
Martyr
Day
(14
December),
observed
every
year.
There
are
proposals
for
a
small
museum,
a
library
cum
office
building
and
a
graveyard
in
the
complex.
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