Abul Khair (Bengali intellectual)

2023-05-06T13:56:35Z

2A02:C7C:5D32:8100:D439:F371:F93A:8CA8: edited death place.

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{{Infobox person
|name=Abul Khair
|native_name=আবুল খায়ের
|native_name_lang=bn
|birth_date=1929
|death_date={{death date and age|1971|12|14|1929|df=y}}
|death_place=Dhaka, East Pakistan
|nationality=Bangladeshi
|education=Ph.D.
|alma_mater=[[University of Dhaka]]
|occupation=Educator
}}
'''Abul Khair''' (1929 – 14 December 1971) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] educator.<ref name=MuktoMonaIntel/>

==Education and career==
Khair joined the department of history of the [[University of Dhaka]] in 1955 as a lecturer. He did his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] on foreign policy in the United States as regards the Indian subcontinent from 1937 to 1947. An enthusiastic supporter of the independence movement of Bangladesh, he was an activist inside the university organizing movements for the autonomy of the university and the non-cooperation movement.<ref name=MuktoMonaIntel>{{cite web|last=Roy|first=Ajay|title=Homage to my martyr colleagues|url=https://mm-gold.azureedge.net/Articles/ajoy/martyr_intellectual.html|work=Mukto Mona|publisher=Mukto Mona|accessdate=6 December 2013}}</ref>

==Death==
Khair was picked up by the Pakistani army sometime in August 1971, together with a few of the other [[Dhaka University]] teachers. That time he was released after a month. He stayed back in his university flat from where he was picked up by the [[Al-Badr (East Pakistan)|Al Badrs]] on 10 December, never to return. He was murdered.<ref name=MuktoMonaIntel/> Khair's mutilated body was found gagged and blindfolded with a bedsheet 21 days later at an abandoned brick kiln at Rayer Bazar. It was his wife Sayeda's [[chador]] that led to his identity being established.<ref name="DailyStarIntel" /> He was buried in the compound of the Dhaka University Central mosque.
<ref>[http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Khair,_M_Abul Banglapedia]</ref>

On the same site at [[Rayer Bazaar|Rayer Bazar]] lay bodies of dozens of other intellectuals killed in the same way.<ref name=DailyStarIntel>{{cite news|last=Khan|first=Morshed Ali|title=The loss is never recoverable|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/december/december14th/loss.htm|accessdate=5 December 2013|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=14 December 2006}}</ref>

On 3 November 2013, [[Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin]], a Muslim leader based in London, and [[Ashrafuz Zaman Khan]], based in the US, were sentenced [[Trial in absentia|in absentia]] after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people—nine Dhaka University teachers (including Dr. Khair), six journalists and three physicians—in December 1971.<ref name=Independent1>{{cite news|last=Chowdhury|first=Syed Tashfin|title=UK Muslim leader Chowdhury Mueen Uddin sentenced to death in Bangladesh|
url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uk-muslim-leader-chowdhury-mueen-uddin-sentenced-to-death-in-bangladesh-8919895.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220506/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uk-muslim-leader-chowdhury-mueen-uddin-sentenced-to-death-in-bangladesh-8919895.html |archive-date=2022-05-06 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|accessdate=7 November 2013|newspaper=The Independent|date=3 November 2013}}</ref>

==Gallery==
[[File:Grave of Abul Khair (1929 – 1971) by the side of DU mosque.jpg|thumb|Grave of Abul Khair by the side of Dhaka University central mosque.]]

==See also==
* [[1971 Bangladesh atrocities]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:1929 births]]
[[Category:1971 deaths]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi murder victims]]
[[Category:People murdered in Bangladesh]]
[[Category:People killed in the Bangladesh Liberation War]]

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