Sahid Minar, image courtesy: Wikipedia
1952
January:
The Basic Principles Committee of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan announces its recommendations that Urdu should be the only state language. It sparks off a wide wave of resentment in East Bengal where the people spoke Bangla.
Politicians and students join their forces for a broader movement under the leadership of Maulana Bhashani of Awami League.
As demonstrations and unrests seem to get out of control, the Government cracks down by imposing a curfew in Dhaka; a number of demonstrators are killed in front of the Dhaka Medical College over a period of one week (February 21-27, 1952).
21 February:
The Language Martyrs Day:
The First Martyrs to die for their native language: Rafiq, Salam, Jabbar, Barkat, and Salauddin. More die in police shootings in the following days. A makeshift memorial is dedicated to these martyrs at the spot of killings: the Shaheed Minar becomes an icon of the Bengalees’ pride in their culture and history, and of their resistance against imposition of all things foreign. The Shaheed Minar also becomes a place where many future movements for the basic rights of the Bangalees are born.
Bangla was recognised as the second official language of Pakistan on 29 February 1956, and article 214(1) of the constitution of Pakistan was reworded to “The state language of Pakistan shall be Urdu and Bengali.”
21 February was proclaimed the International Mother Language Day by UNESCO on 17 November 1999.
Click here for details on the movement.
Source: Uttorshuri, Wikipedia
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Partha
i have just read an article at the following site:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/new_site/mukto-mona/Articles/kasem/mathematics_genocide.htm
I consider it to be utter rubbish. Based on cambodia statistic or any other genocide it would not be possible to kill 3 million people with conventional weapons. You will need weapons of mass destruction or a longer period of time to achieve such huge killing.
i am a bangladeshi, i was thaught to read and write in bengali by abdul gaffar choudhury. (he used to always sing ‘ekoushe februari’ – i loved it). But i do not any people who have really been fighting or involved even though i have been to many 21st Feb celebration.
Certainly my familly or village population were not murdered.
it would have been difficult to dispose of 3 million bodies, at a time when television cameras were available.
It is a very good site.
21st february are overserved all over the country. its an international mother language day all over the world
i love bangla from my heart. This site is great for expressingmy emotion.
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