[Edling] Bangladesh: Nation paying tributes to language movement martyrs

[Francis Hult]

Daily Star


Nation paying tributes to language movement martyrs


The supreme sacrifice of the language heroes on this day 66 years back is being remembered as people in thousands are thronging the Central Shaheed Minar at midnight tonight to pay their glowing tributes to the 1952 language martyrs by placing wreaths at the altar of the monument.


President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led the nation in paying homage to the language heroes as they placed wreaths at the Shaheed Minar here at one minute past midnight.


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