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Shahidullah Kaiser

Died in 1971

Shahidullah Kaiser was born on 16 February 1927 in Majupur, in the Feni district, the son of the principal of the Aliya Madrasah in Dhaka and the elder brother of the filmmaker Zahir Raihan. A graduate in economics of Presidency College, Calcutta, in 1946, after the partition he joined the Communist Party of East Pakistan, became a journalist and was imprisoned several times. On 14 December 1971, he was abducted from his home in Dhaka by collaborators of the Pakistani army, and was never seen again.

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