A group of youths wave Bangladesh flags at the Independence Monument in the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka. Sector Commanders Forum organised the event in which forum leaders handed over flags and torches to people representing the young generation as the clock struck 12:00am on Independence Day.
Marking the atrocities and massacres committed by the Pakistani military on the civilian Bangalees on the Black Night of March 25 in 1971, National Genocide Day was observed yesterday in a befitting manner. Ekattorer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee, a platform campaigning for war crimes trial, brings out a torch procession from Central Shaheed Minar that ends at mass killing ground at Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University. Photo: Anisur Rahman