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Nation celebrating 50th Victory Day
Special Correspondent
16th December, 2020 09:38:09
The nation is celebrating the 50th Victory Day today with a renewed pledge to safeguard the independence and sovereignty of the country, strengthen democracy and contain communalism and militancy.
This day in 1971, the Pakistan occupation forces surrendered to the Bangladesh-India allied forces at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka after a nine-month war of independence.
Marking the day, the nation pays profound homage to the brave sons who laid down their lives for the country’s independence.
The celebration of Victory Day has a different dimension this year as the day will be celebrated in the ‘Mujib Barsho,’ the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
I had set the surrender stage at Race Course: Indian Brig
BSS
16th December, 2020 08:51:26
Bangladesh emerged as the free capital of an independent nation as Pakistani military commander Lieutenant General AAK Niazi signed the document conceding defeat in world’s first ever such surrender ceremony in public on December 16, 1971.
But it remained largely unknown how the stage was set in haste and who was entrusted with the task until 2012 when an Indian war veteran, Brigadier General Sant Singh, told BSS reporter he was the man who arranged the ceremony.
Singh, whom the freedom fighters in 1971 fondly called “Brigadier Babaji” because of his attire – typical Shikh turban and beard and affectionate attitude – was talking to this reporter on the sidelines of a ceremony in Dhaka where he along with several other foreigners were awarded with “Friends of Liberation War Honour”.
I had set the surrender stage at Race Course: Indian Brig
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By Anisur Rahman
DHAKA, Dec 16, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladesh emerged as the free capital of an independent nation as Pakistani military commander Lieutenant General AAK Niazi signed the document conceding defeat in world’s first ever such surrender ceremony in public on December 16, 1971.
But it remained largely unknown how the stage was set in haste and who was entrusted with the task until 2012 when an Indian war veteran, Brigadier General Sant Singh, told BSS reporter he was the man who arranged the ceremony.
Singh, whom the freedom fighters in 1971 fondly called “Brigadier Babaji” because of his attire – typical Shikh turban and beard and affectionate attitude – was talking to this reporter on the sidelines of a ceremony in Dhaka where he along with several other foreigners were awarded with “Friends of Liberation War Honour”.
PM greets countrymen on Victory Day and National Day
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DHAKA, Dec 16, 2020 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina extended her sincere greetings and warm felicitations to the countrymen marking the 50th Victory Day.
She also expressed deep gratitude to those countries and persons who helped Bangladesh by various means during the War of Liberation.
“. . . 16th December is the Great Victory Day and National Day. This is one of the glorious days of the Bengali Nation. Responding to the clarion call of the greatest Bangalee of all time, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Bangalee Nation earned ultimate victory on this day in 1971 after 23 years of intense political struggles and nine-month bloody war against the Pakistani occupation forces,” said the Prime Minister in a message on the occasion of the Great Victory Day.