Background
Alim Chowdhury was born in the village Khoyerpur in Kishoreganj in 1928.
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He studied in Dhaka Medical College and received an Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from there in 1955.
Career
He was abducted by the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Badr militia as part of a plan to kill the renowned intellectuals of the country and was found dead on December 18, at Rayer Bazaar in Dhaka. He passed metric examination from Kishoreganj High School in 1945. Then he went to Calcutta Islamia College, where he passed the Intermediate examination in 1947.
In 1961, he received a Doctorate.O. degree from London.
Chowdhury worked at Street James"s Hospital as a registrar from 1961 to 1963. He returned to Bangladesh in 1963 and joined Kumudini Hospital in Mirzapur as a chief ophthalmologist.
In 1967, He became an associate professor at post graduate medicine and research institute in Dhaka and joined Dhaka Medical College as an associate Professor in 1968. Chowdhury was active in leftist politics from his student life.
He was an active participant in the 1952 Bengali language movement.
In 1971, he was working as an associate professor at the Department of Ophthalmology in Sir Salimullah Medical College. He played an active role in forming the East Pakistan Medical Association (current Bangladesh Medical Association), and was elected the general secretary of the association. Alim Chowdhury had a preference for photography and creative writing.
He edited two monthly magazines named (Bengali: খাপছাড়া) and (Bengali: যাত্রিক) in his student life.
He worked as a sub editor for two newspapers named (Bengali: দৈনিক ইত্তেহাদ) and (Bengali: দৈনিক মিল্লাত). As part of a planned assault on Bengali intellectuals, Chowdhury was abducted by Jamaat"s militia wing First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Badr militants on December 15, 1971.
His dead body was found along with the bodies of many other intellectuals at Rayerbazar mass grave, Dhaka. Moulana Abdul Mannan, one of the key collaborators of the Pakistan army during the Liberation war of Bangladesh, was directly involved in the abduction and killing of Chowdhury.
Chowdhury had been living in Purana Paltan in 1971.
In the mid of July, Moulana Mannan, an organizer of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Badr, came to Chowdhury for a shelter as he was shelterless and destitute at that time. Former speaker A.T.M.A. Matin was neighbor of Chowdnury. lieutenant was Matin whose request made him to rent his ground floor to Mannan.
Chowdhury never returned.
Moulana Mannan absconded on December 16. On December 18, Chowdhury was found dead along with other intellectuals at Rayer Bazar mass grave.
Later, he was buried in Azimpur graveyard.
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On December 15, some members of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Badr came to his house and took him away.
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1971 (aged 43)