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VICTORY DAY 2020
Members of the Mukti Bahini preparing for their next guerilla attack. Photo: Archives
Bangladesh belongs to a select group of countries that fought their way to independence. We won our freedom by winning a fierce nine-month Liberation War against a very well trained, well-armed Pakistan Army. We remember with solemnity and gratitude the sacrifice of the millions of our people who achieved martyrdom, who were assaulted, brutalised and raped by the occupation army and had to flee their homes during the war. The occupying Pakistani Army brutalised us because they wanted us to surrender to them. Instead, the Pakistani Army s 93,000 soldiers laid down their arms on December 16, 1971, in one of the largest surrenders in history. On that day, Bangabandhu s Declaration of Independence of Bangladesh on March 26, 1971, became a reality.
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Published: 10 Dec 2020 08:52 PM BdST
Updated: 10 Dec 2020 08:52 PM BdST
Valiant freedom fighter, former secretary and ambassador Anwar Ul Alam Shaheed has died in hospital care in Dhaka. He was 73. );
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He passed away at the United Hospital around 12:40 pm on Thursday, said Haroon Habib, secretary general of the Sector Commanders Forum.
Shaheed, a vice-president of the forum, had been sick since Nov 1 when the doctors removed a tumour from his brain, said Haroon.
The former secretary then caught COVID-19 and later recovered from the disease, but the doctors kept him on the ventilator as his condition did not improve, the secretary general of the forum added.