International Mother Language Day Celebration at SUB
Amar Ekushey, the UN-recognized International Mother Language Day, is being observed today in the country as elsewhere across the world to pay homage to the Bangla Language Martyrs.
On be half of State University of Bangladesh (SUB) Prof. A.A.K.M. Lutfuzzaman, Dean, School of Science & Technology placed a wreath at the Central Shaheed Minar. Among others Officers, Faculty Members and Students of SUB also placed wreath at the Central Shaheed Minar.
On this day in 1952, scores of students including Salam, Barkat, Jabbar, Rafiq, Shafiq and others laid down their lives in police firing on a peaceful procession on the streets of Dhaka to establish mother tongue Bangla as the state language of Pakistan.
The spilling of the bloods of the valiant young men in the historic language movement was the turning point in all the national movements afterwards including the struggle for autonomy of the then East Pakistan in 1966, the mass upsurge in 1969 which ultimately culminated in the Liberation War in 1971.
In 1999 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) gave recognition to the historic Language Movement of 1952 as the International Mother Language Day commemorating the supreme sacrifices of scores of youths of the then East Pakistan on 21st February.
Since then the day has been observed in 192 member countries of the United Nations throughout the world.