Ayesha Bedora Choudhury

Ayesha's first job was in Gauhati Government Hospital in Guwahati, Assam, India. She moved to Dhaka, East Pakistan, Pakistan, and joined Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. Afterwards she worked in the State Bank of Pakistan as a Medical officer. On 25 March 1971, Bangladesh Liberation war started. During the war she provided medical treatment to the Pro Independence Mukti Bahini and gave them shelter.^[2]

On 16 December 1971 Pakistan forces surrendered to an allied force of Indian Armed Forces and the Mukti Bahini through the Pakistani Instrument of Surrender.^[3][4] That day she went to Bangabandhu Bhaban in 18 Dhanmondi, the personal residence of the President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In the Bangabandhu Bhaban, the wife of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Begum Fazilatunnesa, and their two daughters, Sheikh Rehana and Sheikh Hasina. When her car came near the gate, the Pakistani soldiers who were stationed there and did not know Pakistan had surrendered fired at her car. She and her chauffeur were killed in the firing.^[2]