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One-minute blackout observed across country
DHAKA, March 25, 2019 (BSS) – The nation observed a one-minute blackout from 9pm to 9.01pm across the country tonight in remembrance of the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bengalis on the black night of March 25 in 1971.
In observance of the programme, necessary law enforcement agencies were deployed to ensure security for the countrymen.
The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) unanimously adopted a resolution to observe March 25 as “Gonohotya Dibos” (Genocide Day) on March 11, 2017. Subsequently, the cabinet division in a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, unanimously endorsed the decision on March 20 in 2017.
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