Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar on Saturday said that the mystery over the killings of intellectuals would be revealed if the mystery of missing filmmaker Zahir Raihan was revealed.聽
He came up with the remarks while addressing a discussion organised by the Dhaka City South unit of the party at the National Press Club in Dhaka marking the Martyred Intellectuals Day.
Parwar said Zahir Raihan had taken up the task of documenting and researching the struggle of the Liberation War and the murder of intellectuals.
鈥楬e wanted to uncover the reasons, evidence, and facts of the killings by visiting villages and remote areas and the nation believed that if Zahir Raihan鈥檚 documentary was published, unknown truths would come to light. However, by the last week of January [in 1972], he went missing,鈥� he said.
The incident of intellectual killings remains shrouded in mystery to politicians and thinkers of the nation. The whereabouts of Zahir Raihan and his documentary are still unknown, said Parwar.
The mystery of killings of intellectuals would be revealed if the mystery of missing of Zahir Raihan was known, he said.
He also said although mystery of the murder of intellectuals has not been revealed even after 53 years of independence, there are still opportunities to identify the real killers.