

When the senior officials of Pakistan Army ordered Bangali soldiers of East Bengal Regiment-2 to fire on the protesting crowds, they refused it, leading a skirmish between East and West Pakistani soldiers. The fight for liberation started as a consequence of non-cooperation movement and the nine months war resulted in the emergence of independent sovereign Bangladesh.Ī section of Bangalee soldiers had forged the first ever armed resistance against the Pakistani occupying force at Joydebpur of Gazipur on this day.Ī group of Bangali raised barricades at the strategic points along the Joydebpur road to stop the movements of the Pakistan army with vehicles. This movement spread over the whole of East Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave a clarion call for non-cooperation movement against the dilly-dally attitude of the military junta to transfer power on the basis of election, and for direct non-cooperation of Pakistan People's Party, the major political party of West Pakistan. On the following day, people from all walks of life launched the non-cooperation movement under the leadership of Awami League in order to establish people's rights. The Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, announced the decision on 30 October 2017, at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.īangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the programme of non-cooperation movement through his guideline speech delivered in the Race Course Maidan. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) included the historic speech to its Memory of the World International Register, a list of world's important documentary heritage. Before the mammoth gathering, Bangabandhu described East Pakistan as Bangladesh and finalised the name of the independent state.

The rally was attended by over 1 million people. transfer of power to the elected representatives.investigation into the killing of the people in East Pakistan.In his 20-minute speech, Bangabandhu announced: "Ebarer Shongram amader muktir shongram, Ebarer shongram, shadhinotar Shongram" (This war is a war for independence, this war is a war for Freedom).įour key points of his speech were as below – At the rally, the Chhatra Sangra Parishad (SBCSP) denominated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as 'Father of the Nation' and the song 'Amar Sonar Bangla' as the national anthem of Bangladesh.īangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had delivered a historic speech at the then Race Course Maidan on 7 March.
