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Mass Uprising Day
(
Bengali
:
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) is observed in
Bangladesh
on 24 January to mark the
1969 East Pakistan mass uprising
, the climax of the movement of the people of the then
East Pakistan
for autonomy in 1969 that eventually led to the
Independence War
and emergence of
Bangladesh
in 1971.
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A student procession at the
University of Dhaka
campus during the mass uprising of 1969.
On this day in 1969
Matiur Rahman Mallik
, a standard IX student of the
Nabakumar Institution
,
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[3]
and Rustam Ali, a rickshaw-puller,
[3]
were killed in police fire on demonstrators in Dhaka as the Pakistani rulers desperately tried to suppress the popular uprising. The killings sparked off intense protests across the country that eventually saw the fall of the Ayub regime.
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It is said by politicians that the day teaches Bangladeshis the values of democracy
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and to protest against oppression.
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