In 1971, the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators, most notably the extreme right wing militia group Al-Badr led by Jammat-e-Islami, engaged in the systematic execution of Bengali intellectuals during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

Bengali intellectuals were abducted, tortured and killed during the entire duration of the war as part of the Bangladesh genocide.

[2] A number of professors, physicians and journalists were abducted from their homes by armed Pakistani soldiers and their local collaborators, and executed during this operation and its aftermath.

[3][4] As the war neared its end and Pakistani surrender became apparent, the Pakistan Army made a final effort to eliminate the intelligentsia of the new nation of Bangladesh.

[5] On 14 December 1971, over 200 Bengali intellectuals including professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, and writers were abducted from their homes in Dhaka by the Al-Badr militia and the Pakistan Army.

[6] After the liberation of Bangladesh, a list of Bengali intellectuals was discovered in a page of Major General Rao Farman Ali's diary left behind at the Governor's House.