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As the vice president of Women’s Students’ Union, I was responsible for organising female students. I sent some of them to girls’ schools to bring the girls to the meeting at Amtala [February 21, 1952].

The meeting started at Amtala [February 21, 1952]. There was a question in everyone’s eyes -- what will happen, what will we do now?

In 1952, I was the editor of Sainik. I used to live in 19, Azimpur with Mr [Principal Abul] Kashem. I was present at the meeting of the All-party State Language Action Committee in Nawabpur [February 20, 1952]. The meeting decided not to violate section 144.

The preparation for strike on February 21, 1952 was going on for several days. Every day, I went to girls’ schools, particularly Kamrunnesa, Banglabazar and Muslim Girls School, to organise them.

Until 1948, the State Language Movement was a movement of the intelligentsia and the students; it did not find its place among the masses.

On February 21, 1952, a meeting of students began at Amtala (now Dhaka Medical College and Hospital). Gaziul Haque presided over the meeting.

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Eight people, including three teenage boys, were killed, while many others injured, in four separate road accidents in Dinajpur, Barishal and Jashore yesterday.