Bangladesh 55th Omor Ekushey February
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On the eve of EKUSHEY FEBRUARY, I dedicate this Vdo which I made and my sincere respect to all who sacrificed their lives for the language movement.
Language Heroes: Rafiq, Salam, Barkat, Jabbar, Shafiur Rahman, Ahi Ullah, Abdul Awal, An unidentified boy...
Bangla Language Day, popularly known as Ekushe (21) February, is one of the most significant days, not in Bangladesh only, but in human history because on that day the valiant Bangalee boys gave their lives to defend their sweet mother tongue, Bangla language. Over the centuries people gave their lives for love, faith, freedom, nation and the state. But on 21 February 1952, ever in history, a bunch of young Bangalee students gave their lives in a protest rally at the Dhaka university campus against the Pakistani authority's attempt to impose Urdu (as the state language of Pakistan) over the 70 million Bangalees of East Bangla (then East Pakistan).
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anyways,, dude, I dont want to get into any debate or fight with you.. just thought I should answer...
And... labonno.. Nice video... thanks....
With regards to the debate going on above, I cannot help but to highlight the fact that we fought for freedom. Neither culture nor religion can justify not having freedom. Therefore, blaming us to leave religion or failing to be united with rest of Bengal is irrelevant.
We chose to be a nation known as Bangladesh and we are proud to be Bangladeshis. Yes our majority religion is still Islam but we have Hindus, Buddhist, Christians, and tribal faithful living as Bangladeshis in this country too. And we are proud of all of them. We share a lot of culture with West Bengal in India but we are different and we celebrate this difference.
During the British rule of more than 200 hundred years, primarily religion was used to divide us and to rule us (the famous divide and rule strategy of British Empire). Unfortunately we gave up our freedom and fought with our neighbours and countrymen just because they are of different religion. This motivated Muslims and Hindus in 1947 to bargain for their own religion based states.
We chose to be with Pakistan only because the issue then was religion i.e. being Hindu or Muslim. We paid the price of culture to join a state similar in religion i.e. Islam just to enjoy freedom. Unfortunately our Muslim brothers in West Pakistan failed to provide that very freedom to us.
Therefore, we fought again for our freedom and this time we ignored the fact that we are fighting against Muslims. Once again it is freedom that human being cherish and it is freedom for which human being are ready to sacrifice anything. In 1971 we realised that being in a Muslim state not necessarily give us the necessary freedom to enjoy our culture, language, tradition. Therefore, we fought again and we identified us as Bangladeshis.
Remember there is a difference between Bengalis and Bangladeshis. We are proud to be Bangladeshis whose cultural orientation is predominantly Bengali. Bangladeshis are free people who chose Bengali to be their language, Bengal to be their cultural root, Islam as their majority religion with peaceful coexistence of other religion (as we are secular state), and the tradition evolves from all these sources.
We are proud to be Bangladeshis, a free nation, a freely evolved society with unique tradition and culture.
a family member, we lost him on 14th dec 71.
he knew his life was in danger but always he use to say " why should I hide in my own country..."