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|significance = Commemoration of the [[Bengali Genocide]]
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The '''Bengali Genocide Remembrance Day''' ({{lang-bn|বাঙালি গণহত্যা স্মরণ দিবস}} ''Bāṅgāli Gaṇahatyā Smaraṇ Dibas / Bangali Gonohotta Shoron Dibosh'') or the '''Bangladesh Genocide Memorial Day''' is a national day of remembrance which is observed on 25 March in Bangladesh in commemoration of the victims of the [[Bengali genocide]] of 1971.<ref name=NTV>{{Cite news |url= http://en.ntvbd.com/bangladesh/51411/Bangladesh-declares-March-25-as-Genocide-Day |title= Bangladesh declares March 25 as Genocide Day |work= [[NTV (Bangladesh)|NTV]] |date= 11 March 2017 |access-date= 6 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.thedailystar.net/city/17-receive-ekushey-padak-1364194 |title= PM slams Pakistan for propaganda about '71 genocide |work= [[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]] |date= 20 February 2017 |access-date= 6 July 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.daily-sun.com/arcprint/details/206191/Declare-March-25-as-Genocide-Day-/2017-02-17 |title= Declare March 25 as Genocide Day |work= [[Daily Sun (Bangladesh)|The Daily Sun]] |date= 17 February 2017 |access-date= 6 July 2017 |language=en}}</ref>
'''Genocide Remembrance Day''' ({{lang-bn|গণহত্যা স্মরণ দিবস}} ''Gaṇahatyā Smaraṇ Dibas'') is a national day of remembrance in [[Bangladesh]] observed on 25 March in commemoration of the victims of the [[Bangladesh genocide]] during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] in 1971.<ref name=NTV>{{Cite news |url= http://en.ntvbd.com/bangladesh/51411/Bangladesh-declares-March-25-as-Genocide-Day |title= Bangladesh declares March 25 as Genocide Day |work= [[NTV (Bangladesh)|NTV]] |date= 11 March 2017 |access-date= 6 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.thedailystar.net/city/17-receive-ekushey-padak-1364194 |title= PM slams Pakistan for propaganda about '71 genocide |work= [[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]] |date= 20 February 2017 |access-date= 6 July 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.daily-sun.com/arcprint/details/206191/Declare-March-25-as-Genocide-Day-/2017-02-17 |title= Declare March 25 as Genocide Day |work= [[Daily Sun (Bangladesh)|The Daily Sun]] |date= 17 February 2017 |access-date= 6 July 2017 |language=en}}</ref>


On 11 March 2017, the [[Parliament of Bangladesh]] unanimously passed the Resolution designating 25 March as a ''Genocide Remembrance Day''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/motion-placed-js-declare-mar-25-mass-killing-day-1374331|title=Parliament passes motion to mark March 25 as Genocide Day|date=11 March 2017|work=The Daily Star|access-date=22 March 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/03/11/march-25-declared-genocide-day/|title=Parliament declares March 25 Genocide Day |date=11 March 2017|work=Dhaka Tribune|access-date=22 March 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> The day honours and remembers those who suffered and died as a consequence of actions by the Pakistani Army on 25 March 1971, which started the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide and ended with the [[Independence of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.banglamirrornews.com/2017/03/jatiya-sangsad-declares-march-25-as-gonohotya-dibosh/|title=Jatiya Sangsad declares March 25 as 'Gonohotya Dibosh' |work=[[Bangla Mirror]]|language=en-US|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315175818/http://www.banglamirrornews.com/2017/03/jatiya-sangsad-declares-march-25-as-gonohotya-dibosh/|archive-date=15 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thefinancetoday.net/2017/03/12/parliament-declares-march-25-as-gonohotya-dibosh/|title=Parliament declares March 25 as "Gonohotya Dibosh"|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315174713/http://www.thefinancetoday.net/2017/03/12/parliament-declares-march-25-as-gonohotya-dibosh/|archive-date=15 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nirapadnews.com/english/2017/03/13/news-id:84275/|title=14-party alliance to observe March 25 as 'Genocide Day'|website=Nirapad News|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317094357/http://www.nirapadnews.com/english/2017/03/13/news-id:84275/|archive-date=17 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=648904&date=2017-03-12|title=JS resolution on Day of Genocide hailed|work=[[Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha]]|language=en|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315175216/http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=648904&date=2017-03-12|archive-date=15 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On 11 March 2017, the [[Jatiya Sangsad]] unanimously passed a resolution designating 25 March as a ''Genocide Remembrance Day''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/motion-placed-js-declare-mar-25-mass-killing-day-1374331|title=Parliament passes motion to mark March 25 as Genocide Day|date=11 March 2017|work=The Daily Star|access-date=22 March 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/03/11/march-25-declared-genocide-day/|title=Parliament declares March 25 Genocide Day |date=11 March 2017|work=Dhaka Tribune|access-date=22 March 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> The day honours and remembers those who suffered and died as a result of the actions of the Pakistan Army during [[Operation Searchlight]], which initiated the Bangladesh Genocide culminating with the [[Independence of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.banglamirrornews.com/2017/03/jatiya-sangsad-declares-march-25-as-gonohotya-dibosh/|title=Jatiya Sangsad declares March 25 as 'Gonohotya Dibosh' |work=[[Bangla Mirror]]|language=en-US|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315175818/http://www.banglamirrornews.com/2017/03/jatiya-sangsad-declares-march-25-as-gonohotya-dibosh/|archive-date=15 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thefinancetoday.net/2017/03/12/parliament-declares-march-25-as-gonohotya-dibosh/|title=Parliament declares March 25 as "Gonohotya Dibosh"|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315174713/http://www.thefinancetoday.net/2017/03/12/parliament-declares-march-25-as-gonohotya-dibosh/|archive-date=15 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nirapadnews.com/english/2017/03/13/news-id:84275/|title=14-party alliance to observe March 25 as 'Genocide Day'|website=Nirapad News|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317094357/http://www.nirapadnews.com/english/2017/03/13/news-id:84275/|archive-date=17 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=648904&date=2017-03-12|title=JS resolution on Day of Genocide hailed|work=[[Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha]]|language=en|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315175216/http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=648904&date=2017-03-12|archive-date=15 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
{{main|Bengali genocide|Operation Searchlight|Bangladesh Liberation War}}
{{main|Bangladesh genocide|Operation Searchlight|Bangladesh Liberation War}}


The date 25 March commemorates [[Operation Searchlight]], a planned military pacification carried out by the [[Pakistan Army]], started on 25 March to curb the [[Bengal]]i independence movement by taking control of the major cities on 26 March, and then eliminating all opposition, political or military, within one month.<ref>[[Salik, Siddiq]], ''Witness To Surrender'', pp 63, 228–9 {{ISBN|984-05-1373-7}}</ref> Before the beginning of the operation, all foreign journalists were systematically deported from East Pakistan.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Siddiqui |first=Asif |date=December 1997 |title=From Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy to War: The 1971 Crisis in South Asia |journal=Journal of International and Area Studies |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=73–92 |jstor=43106996}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.daily-sun.com/printversion/details/205993/JS-may-be-moved-to-mark-March-25-as-Genocide-Day|title=JS may be moved to mark March 25 as Genocide Day|work=The Daily Sun|access-date=22 March 2017|language=en}}</ref>
The date 25 March commemorates [[Operation Searchlight]], a planned military pacification carried out by the [[Pakistan Army]], started on 25 March to curb the [[Bengal]]i independence movement by taking control of the major cities on 26 March, and then eliminating all opposition, political or military, within one month.<ref>[[Salik, Siddiq]], ''Witness To Surrender'', pp 63, 228–9 {{ISBN|984-05-1373-7}}</ref> Before the beginning of the operation, all foreign journalists were systematically deported from East Pakistan.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Siddiqui |first=Asif |date=December 1997 |title=From Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy to War: The 1971 Crisis in South Asia |journal=Journal of International and Area Studies |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=73–92 |jstor=43106996}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.daily-sun.com/printversion/details/205993/JS-may-be-moved-to-mark-March-25-as-Genocide-Day|title=JS may be moved to mark March 25 as Genocide Day|work=The Daily Sun|access-date=22 March 2017|language=en}}</ref>

Revision as of 17:56, 25 March 2023

Genocide Remembrance Day
গণহত্যা স্মরণ দিবস
National Martyrs' Memorial
Observed byBangladesh
Bangladeshi diaspora
TypeNational
SignificanceCommemoration of the Bangladesh Genocide
Date25 March
Frequencyannual
First time2017[1][2]

Genocide Remembrance Day (Bengali: গণহত্যা স্মরণ দিবস Gaṇahatyā Smaraṇ Dibas) is a national day of remembrance in Bangladesh observed on 25 March in commemoration of the victims of the Bangladesh genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.[2][3][4]

On 11 March 2017, the Jatiya Sangsad unanimously passed a resolution designating 25 March as a Genocide Remembrance Day.[5][6] The day honours and remembers those who suffered and died as a result of the actions of the Pakistan Army during Operation Searchlight, which initiated the Bangladesh Genocide culminating with the Independence of Bangladesh.[7][8][9][10]

History

Main articles: Bangladesh genocide, Operation Searchlight, and Bangladesh Liberation War

The date 25 March commemorates Operation Searchlight, a planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army, started on 25 March to curb the Bengali independence movement by taking control of the major cities on 26 March, and then eliminating all opposition, political or military, within one month.[11] Before the beginning of the operation, all foreign journalists were systematically deported from East Pakistan.[12][13]

During this period the persecution of the Bengali population by Pakistan army led by General A. A. K. Niazi was notable. It is believed this was on account of the contempt the dominant Punjabi Pakistanis had for Bengalis, there is evidence that among the Bengalis, the Hindu minority was doubly marked out for persecution. In a post-war enquiry several senior Pakistani officers admitted to systematic targeting of the community on the orders from a brigadier which General Niazi denied.[14]

"Bangladesh will reach out to UN seeking recognition of the 1971 Genocide while the government declared March 25 as Genocide Day", according to Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq.[15]

International recognition

The government of Bangladesh is working on achieving global recognition of March 25 as "Bangladesh's Genocide Day". Genocide Watch and Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issued statements on the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971 perpetrated against Bangladeshi people by Pakistani Army. These statements will strengthen and accelerate Bangladesh's commitment to achieve global recognition of "Genocide Day".[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Whole nation should observe National Genocide Day". New Age. 14 March 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Bangladesh declares March 25 as Genocide Day". NTV. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  3. ^ "PM slams Pakistan for propaganda about '71 genocide". The Daily Star. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Declare March 25 as Genocide Day". The Daily Sun. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Parliament passes motion to mark March 25 as Genocide Day". The Daily Star. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Parliament declares March 25 Genocide Day". Dhaka Tribune. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Jatiya Sangsad declares March 25 as 'Gonohotya Dibosh'". Bangla Mirror. Archived from the original on 15 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  8. ^ "Parliament declares March 25 as "Gonohotya Dibosh"". Archived from the original on 15 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  9. ^ "14-party alliance to observe March 25 as 'Genocide Day'". Nirapad News. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  10. ^ "JS resolution on Day of Genocide hailed". Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. Archived from the original on 15 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  11. ^ Salik, Siddiq, Witness To Surrender, pp 63, 228–9 ISBN 984-05-1373-7
  12. ^ Siddiqui, Asif (December 1997). "From Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy to War: The 1971 Crisis in South Asia". Journal of International and Area Studies. 4 (1): 73–92. JSTOR 43106996.
  13. ^ "JS may be moved to mark March 25 as Genocide Day". The Daily Sun. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  14. ^ Bass, Gary J. (2014). The Blood Telegram: India's Secret War in East Pakistan. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. ISBN 9789353051853.
  15. ^ "News Details". Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  16. ^ Dhaka appreciates Genocide Watch's statement, Dhaka Tribune, 9 February 2022
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