Mohammed Fazle Rabbee

Mohammed Fazle Rabbee (occasionally spelled Rabbi, Bengali: মোহাম্মদ ফজলে রাব্বী; 21 September 1932 – 15 December 1971) was a renowned cardiologist and a published medical researcher.

He was murdered in the intellectual killing during the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh by Pakistani army and its local collaborators, the Jamaat-affiliated Al-Badr militia.

Upon graduation, he worked at Middlesex Hospital with Sir Francis Avery Jones,[citation needed] an eminent British gastroenterologist.

[1] After Rabbee finished his studies, he returned to East Pakistan on 1 January 1963, where he became an associate professor of medicine at the Dhaka Medical College.

[2] The Language Movement in 1952 opened his eyes to the tyranny and repression of the Pakistani government against its Bengali speaking citizens.

The Pakistani government used to suppress and deprive east Pakistan and used to neglect their language, culture, and secular philosophy.

[citation needed] In 1970 when the repression of East Pakistanis reached a peak, Rabbee received the Pakistan best professor award which he refused to accept.

Both he and his wife provided medical care, surgery, money, shelter and transportation cost to refugee camps to families of those who were killed, as well as for survivors of torture and rape.

For his poor patients, this popular doctor, gave free medical treatment, medicine, transportation and hospitalisation costs.

His publications include "A Case of Congenital Hyperbilirubinaemia (Dubin-Johnson Syndrome) in Pakistan"[4] and "Spirometry in Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia".

It was known that on 15 December midnight Rabbee along with some other intellectuals were taken in a truck from the Lalmatia Physical Training Institute to the Rayerbazar brickfield and murdered in a brutal manner.

[6]The president of Pabna Drama Circle and a leading cultural activist, Gopal Sanyal, said, "When the occupation forces realized that Bangladesh was about to become independent, they killed off the intellectuals who were the greatest minds of the country.

Rabbee with his wife Jahan Ara Rabbee (November 1971)
Rabbee in the 1969 speech at PG hospital