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	\|death_date= 14 December 1971 (aged 40)		\|death_date= 14 December 1971 (aged 40)
	\|death_place=[[Rayer Bazaar]], [[Dhaka ~~District~~]], ~~{{flag~~\|~~East Pakistan}} (now in~~ [[~~Bangladesh~~]])		\|death_place = [[Rayer Bazaar]], [[Dhaka Division\|Dhaka]], Bangladesh
	\|~~burial_place~~=~~Azimpur Graveyard~~		\|burial_place=[[Azimpur, Dhaka]], Bangladesh
	\|death_cause= Bayonet charge ~~by Al-Badr~~		\|known_for=[[1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals\|Martyred Intellectual]]
			\|death_cause= [[Assassination]] by [[Bayonet]] charge
	\|other names= Manwara Begum		\|other names= Manwara Begum
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	~~As a teacher in ''Azimpur Baby Home'' (from 1960 to 1965)~~

	~~A worker in ''Salimulla Orphanage'' (from 1965 to 1966)~~

	~~Secretary to the editor in ''Weekly Begum'' (from 1966 to 1967)~~

	~~Journalist in ''Weekly Lalana'' (from 1967 to~~ 1971)
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	'''Selina Parvin''' (31 March 1931{{snd}}14 December 1971) was a [[Bangladeshi]] journalist and poet.<ref name=DailyStarIntel>{{cite news \|title=Profiles of martyred intellectuals \|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/december/december14th/intellectuals.htm \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|date=14 December 2006 \|accessdate=7 November ~~2022~~}}</ref> She is one of the [[1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals\|intellectual martyrs]] killed by [[Al-Badr (East Pakistan)\|Al-Badr]]<ref name=DS-Tamanna>{{cite news \|last=Khan \|first=Tamanna \|date=4 November 2013 \|title=It was matricide \|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/it-was-matricide/ \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=7 November ~~2022~~}}</ref> on 14 December, immediately before the victory after the 9-month-long war of independence of Bangladesh in 1971. This day later came to be commemorated as the intellectual martyr day. As a journalist she used to work for ''Weekly Begum'', ''Weekly Lalana'' and ''Shilalipi''.<ref name=DailyStarIntel/><!-- need to verify English spelling of the magazines --> She was buried in Azimpur Graveyard on 18 December 1971.<ref name="Hossain 2012">{{cite book \|last=Hossain \|first=Selina \|year=2012 \|chapter=Parvin, Selina \|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Parvin,_Selina \|editor1-last=Islam \|editor1-first=Sirajul \|editor1-link=Sirajul Islam \|editor2-last=Jamal \|editor2-first=Ahmed A. \|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh \|edition=Second \|publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>		'''Selina Parvin''' (31 March 1931{{snd}}14 December 1971) was a [[Bangladeshi]] journalist and poet.<ref name=DailyStarIntel>{{cite news \|title=Profiles of martyred intellectuals \|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/december/december14th/intellectuals.htm \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|date=14 December 2006 \|accessdate=7 November 2013 \|archive-date=3 December 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203062204/http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/december/december14th/intellectuals.htm \|url-status=dead }}</ref> She is one of the [[1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals\|intellectual martyrs]] killed by [[Al-Badr (East Pakistan)\|Al-Badr]]<ref name=DS-Tamanna>{{cite news \|last=Khan \|first=Tamanna \|date=4 November 2013 \|title=It was matricide \|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/it-was-matricide/ \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=7 November 2013}}</ref> on 14 December, immediately before the victory after the 9-month-long war of independence of Bangladesh in 1971. This day later came to be commemorated as the intellectual martyr day. As a journalist she used to work for ''Weekly Begum'', ''Weekly Lalana'' and ''Shilalipi''.<ref name=DailyStarIntel/><!-- need to verify English spelling of the magazines --> She was buried in Azimpur Graveyard on 18 December 1971.<ref name="Hossain 2012">{{cite book \|last=Hossain \|first=Selina \|year=2012 \|chapter=Parvin, Selina \|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Parvin,_Selina \|editor1-last=Islam \|editor1-first=Sirajul \|editor1-link=Sirajul Islam \|editor2-last=Jamal \|editor2-first=Ahmed A. \|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh \|edition=Second \|publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>

	==Childhood==		==Childhood==
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	==Career==		==Career==
	Selina Parvin had a job for in nursing at Mitford Hospital in 1957. She worked for some time as a matron in [[Rokeya Hall]] in 1959 and joined the ''Azimpur Baby Home'' as a teacher in 1960. She worked for some time in ''Salimulla Orphanage'' in 1965 and then joined as secretary to the editor of 'week Begum'' in 1966. In 1967 Selina Parvin joined the ''Weekly Lalana'' as a journalist. She then married a politician. She used to work with various periodicals and used to publish her own pro-liberation<ref name=DS-Tamanna/> periodical ''Shilalipi'' on an irregular basis.<ref name=academy/> She used the weekly's earning to help freedom ~~villains s~~.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/> In Shailalipi, Selina Parveen used to publish articles by prominent personalities including Prof [[Munir Chowdhury]], journalist [[Shahidullah Kaiser]], [[Zahir Raihan]] and [[ANM Golam Mostafa]], all of whom except Raihan became targets of Al-Badr.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/><ref name=Independent1/> Zahir Raihan left his house on 30 January 1972 looking for his brother [[Shahidullah Kaiser]], but never returned.<ref name=Capturing>{{cite news \|last=Ferdous \|first=Fahmim \|date=19 February 2013 \|title=Zahir Raihan: Capturing national struggles on celluloid \|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=269585 \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=9 November ~~2022~~}}</ref>		Selina Parvin had a job for in nursing at Mitford Hospital in 1957. She worked for some time as a matron in [[Rokeya Hall]] in 1959 and joined the ''Azimpur Baby Home'' as a teacher in 1960. She worked for some time in ''Salimulla Orphanage'' in 1965 and then joined as secretary to the editor of ''week Begum'' in 1966. In 1967 Selina Parvin joined the ''Weekly Lalana'' as a journalist. She then married a politician. She used to work with various periodicals and used to publish her own pro-liberation<ref name=DS-Tamanna/> periodical ''Shilalipi'' on an irregular basis.<ref name=academy/> She used the weekly's earning to help freedom fighters.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/> In Shailalipi, Selina Parveen used to publish articles by prominent personalities including Prof [[Munir Chowdhury]], journalist [[Shahidullah Kaiser]], [[Zahir Raihan]] and [[ANM Golam Mostafa]], all of whom except Raihan became targets of Al-Badr.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/><ref name=Independent1/> Zahir Raihan left his house on 30 January 1972 looking for his brother [[Shahidullah Kaiser]], but never returned.<ref name=Capturing>{{cite news \|last=Ferdous \|first=Fahmim \|date=19 February 2013 \|title=Zahir Raihan: Capturing national struggles on celluloid \|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=269585 \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=9 November 2013 \|archive-date=10 November 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110063654/http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=269585 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	==Death==		==Death==
	On 13 December 1971, like other intellectual martyrs, Selina Parvin was seized by members of the paramilitary force Al-Badr. Her son Sumon was only 7 years old.<ref name=MofidulLong/> She was brutally killed on 14 December and her dead body was later discovered in the Rayerbazar Boddhobhumy. A lone survivor of the killing testified to the court that being blindfolded, he heard a woman [Selina Parvin] screaming and begging Al-Badr men for her life, appealed to spare her as she had a ~~kid~~ and there was none to take care of him but her. But the brutal killers did not spare her. She was instantly killed by charging bayonet as narrated by the witness.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/><ref name=MofidulLong/> The lone survivor, who managed to loosen the rope with which he was tied and escaped, had described how three prisoners were tortured before being taken out to be shot. Among the victims, Selina Parvin was [later] found with two bayonet wounds, one through the eye and one in the stomach, and two bullet wounds.<ref name=MofidulLong>{{cite news \|last=Hoque \|first=Mofidul \|date=14 December 2013 \|title=Long Walk to Justice \|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/long-walk-to-justice/ \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=31 December ~~2022~~}}</ref>		On 13 December 1971, like other intellectual martyrs, Selina Parvin was seized by members of the paramilitary force Al-Badr. Her son Sumon was only 7 years old.<ref name=MofidulLong/> She was brutally killed on 14 December and her dead body was later discovered in the Rayerbazar Boddhobhumy. Delwar Hossain, the lone survivor of the killing, testified to the court that being blindfolded, he heard a woman [Selina Parvin] screaming and begging Al-Badr men for her life, appealed to spare her as she had a son and there was none to take care of him but her. But the brutal killers did not spare her. She was instantly killed by charging bayonet as narrated by the witness.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/><ref name=MofidulLong/> The lone survivor, who managed to loosen the rope with which he was tied and escaped, had described how three prisoners were tortured before being taken out to be shot. Among the victims, Selina Parvin was [later] found with two bayonet wounds, one through the eye and one in the stomach, and two bullet wounds.<ref name=MofidulLong>{{cite news \|last=Hoque \|first=Mofidul \|date=14 December 2013 \|title=Long Walk to Justice \|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/long-walk-to-justice/ \|newspaper=The Daily Star \|accessdate=31 December 2013 \|archive-date=31 December 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231101623/http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/long-walk-to-justice/ \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	On 3 November 2013, [[Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin]], a Muslim leader based in London, and [[Ashrafuz Zaman Khan]], based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people in December 1971 – nine Dhaka University teachers, six journalists including Selina Parvin, and three physicians.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/><ref name=Independent1>{{cite news \|last=Chowdhury \|first=Syed Tashfin \|date=3 November 2013 \|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 \|newspaper=The Independent \|location=London \|accessdate=7 November ~~2022~~}}</ref>		On 3 November 2013, [[Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin]], a Muslim leader based in London, and [[Ashrafuz Zaman Khan]], based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people in December 1971 – nine Dhaka University teachers, six journalists including Selina Parvin, and three physicians.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/><ref name=Independent1>{{cite news \|last=Chowdhury \|first=Syed Tashfin \|date=3 November 2013 \|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 \|newspaper=The Independent \|location=London \|accessdate=7 November 2013}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==
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	==Further reading==		==Further reading==
	* {{cite news \| title=AFD arranges festival of independent films \| url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/timeout/18322.html \| newspaper=New Age \| date=11 May 2011 \| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129195609/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2011-05-11&nid=18322 \| archive-date=29 January 2013 \| url-status=dead \| df=dmy-all }}		* {{cite news \| title=AFD arranges festival of independent films \| url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/timeout/18322.html \| newspaper=New Age \| date=11 May 2011 \| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129195609/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2011-05-11&nid=18322 \| archive-date=29 January 2013 \| url-status=dead \| df=dmy-all }}
	* {{cite news \| author=Shahidullah, Kaiser \| title=Martyred Intellectuals: The saga lives on... \| url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2009/december/martyred_day_special/page01.htm \| newspaper=The Daily Star}}		* {{cite news \| author=Shahidullah, Kaiser \| title=Martyred Intellectuals: The saga lives on... \| url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2009/december/martyred_day_special/page01.htm \| newspaper=The Daily Star \| access-date=11 December 2015 \| archive-date=22 December 2015 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222122051/http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2009/december/martyred_day_special/page01.htm \| url-status=dead }}

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As a teacher in ''Azimpur Baby Home'' (from 1960 to 1965)

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'''Selina Parvin''' (31 March 1931{{snd}}14 December 1971) was a [[Bangladeshi]] journalist and poet.<ref name=DailyStarIntel>{{cite news |title=Profiles of martyred intellectuals |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/december/december14th/intellectuals.htm |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=14 December 2006 |accessdate=7 November 2022}}</ref> She is one of the [[1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals|intellectual martyrs]] killed by [[Al-Badr (East Pakistan)|Al-Badr]]<ref name=DS-Tamanna>{{cite news |last=Khan |first=Tamanna |date=4 November 2013 |title=It was matricide |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/it-was-matricide/ |newspaper=The Daily Star |accessdate=7 November 2022}}</ref> on 14 December, immediately before the victory after the 9-month-long war of independence of Bangladesh in 1971. This day later came to be commemorated as the intellectual martyr day. As a journalist she used to work for ''Weekly Begum'', ''Weekly Lalana'' and ''Shilalipi''.<ref name=DailyStarIntel/> She was buried in Azimpur Graveyard on 18 December 1971.<ref name="Hossain 2012">{{cite book |last=Hossain |first=Selina |year=2012 |chapter=Parvin, Selina |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Parvin,_Selina |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>

==Childhood==
Selina was born in [[Ramganj Upazila]] of erstwhile [[Noakhali District]].<ref name="DailyStarIntel" /><ref name="Hossain 2012"/> Her father Md Abidur Rahman was a teacher. When after World War II her father's house in [[Feni District]] was seized, the family had to settle back in village. Then 12-year-old Selina was a student in class six and skilled in writing poetry and stories. Due to the traditional conservative rural context she had to put an end to her schooling. At the [[child marriage|age of 14 she was married]] against her consent and she refused to live with her husband. She wanted to study further but could not succeed in the matriculation exam. After 10 years they divorced.<ref name=academy>স্মৃতি: ১৯৭১, Volume 4, Page 98, Bangla Academy, {{ISBN|984-07-3351-6}}</ref>

==Career==
Selina Parvin had a job for in nursing at Mitford Hospital in 1957. She worked for some time as a matron in [[Rokeya Hall]] in 1959 and joined the ''Azimpur Baby Home'' as a teacher in 1960. She worked for some time in ''Salimulla Orphanage'' in 1965 and then joined as secretary to the editor of 'week Begum'' in 1966. In 1967 Selina Parvin joined the ''Weekly Lalana'' as a journalist. She then married a politician. She used to work with various periodicals and used to publish her own pro-liberation<ref name=DS-Tamanna/> periodical ''Shilalipi'' on an irregular basis.<ref name=academy/> She used the weekly's earning to help freedom villains s.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/> In Shailalipi, Selina Parveen used to publish articles by prominent personalities including Prof [[Munir Chowdhury]], journalist [[Shahidullah Kaiser]], [[Zahir Raihan]] and [[ANM Golam Mostafa]], all of whom except Raihan became targets of Al-Badr.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/><ref name=Independent1/> Zahir Raihan left his house on 30 January 1972 looking for his brother [[Shahidullah Kaiser]], but never returned.<ref name=Capturing>{{cite news |last=Ferdous |first=Fahmim |date=19 February 2013 |title=Zahir Raihan: Capturing national struggles on celluloid |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=269585 |newspaper=The Daily Star |accessdate=9 November 2022}}</ref>

==Death==
On 13 December 1971, like other intellectual martyrs, Selina Parvin was seized by members of the paramilitary force Al-Badr. Her son Sumon was only 7 years old.<ref name=MofidulLong/> She was brutally killed on 14 December and her dead body was later discovered in the Rayerbazar Boddhobhumy. A lone survivor of the killing testified to the court that being blindfolded, he heard a woman [Selina Parvin] screaming and begging Al-Badr men for her life, appealed to spare her as she had a kid and there was none to take care of him but her. But the brutal killers did not spare her. She was instantly killed by charging bayonet as narrated by the witness.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/><ref name=MofidulLong/> The lone survivor, who managed to loosen the rope with which he was tied and escaped, had described how three prisoners were tortured before being taken out to be shot. Among the victims, Selina Parvin was [later] found with two bayonet wounds, one through the eye and one in the stomach, and two bullet wounds.<ref name=MofidulLong>{{cite news |last=Hoque |first=Mofidul |date=14 December 2013 |title=Long Walk to Justice |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/long-walk-to-justice/ |newspaper=The Daily Star |accessdate=31 December 2022}}</ref>

On 3 November 2013, [[Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin]], a Muslim leader based in London, and [[Ashrafuz Zaman Khan]], based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people in December 1971 – nine Dhaka University teachers, six journalists including Selina Parvin, and three physicians.<ref name=DS-Tamanna/><ref name=Independent1>{{cite news |last=Chowdhury |first=Syed Tashfin |date=3 November 2013 |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 |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |accessdate=7 November 2022}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of journalists killed in Bangladesh]]

==References==
<references />

==Further reading==
* {{cite news | title=AFD arranges festival of independent films | url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/timeout/18322.html | newspaper=New Age | date=11 May 2011 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129195609/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2011-05-11&nid=18322 | archive-date=29 January 2013 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}
* {{cite news | author=Shahidullah, Kaiser | title=Martyred Intellectuals: The saga lives on... | url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2009/december/martyred_day_special/page01.htm | newspaper=The Daily Star}}

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