The historic ‘Mass Uprising Day’, commemorating the 1969’s movement for autonomy from the then East Pakistan that eventually led to the Liberation War and the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971, will be observed on Friday in a befitting manner.
Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday said that the mass uprising of 1969 was a significant chapter in the history of Bangladesh.
‘The mass uprising of 1969 is a significant chapter in the history of Bangladesh. We achieved the great independence through the Language Movement of 1952 and the Six-point Bengali Emancipation Proclamation and later the 11-point in continuation of the mass uprising of 1969. The armed War of Liberation also took place as a sequel,’ he said in a message on the occasion of the day.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin also delivered message, calling upon all to work unitedly to uphold country’s independence and democracy achieved through a long struggle.
The president said that the 1969 Mass Upsurge waas an unforgettable chapter in the history of Bangladesh’s independence movement and democratic process.
On January 24, 1969, Matiur Rahman Mallik, a standard IX student of Nabakumar Institution, and Rustam Ali, a rickshaw-puller, were killed in a police firing on demonstrators in Dhaka as Pakistani rulers desperately tried to suppress the popular uprising.
The killings spread intense protests across the country that eventually saw the fall of the autocrat Ayub regime.
Different political and socio-cultural organisations have taken separate programmes in observance of the day.
