Bangladesh: Int'l Mother Language Day

[Francis Hult]

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Backgrounder: Int'l Mother Language Day 

 

Bangladesh observed on Thursday "The International Mother Language Day" with other countries around the world. 

 

"The International Language Day" is also called the Language Martyrs' Day in Bangladesh. It is commemorated to the martyrs who fought in the 1952 Language Movement and laid down their lives to establish Bangla as the state language of Pakistan. 

 

On the day in 1952, many brave youths of the then east-Pakistan, now Bangladesh, embraced martyrdom in police firing in the streets of Dhaka while protesting the then Pakistani rulers' declaration that the Urdu would be state language. 

 

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/21/content_7641365.htm

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