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Homage paid to Bangabandhu across globe
DHAKA, Aug 16, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladeshi expatriates and foreign dignitaries across the globe paid their profound homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as Bangladesh missions abroad observed the National Mourning Day with due solemnity and dignity.
The National Mourning Day commemorates the 45th martyrdom anniversary of
Bangladesh founding father and members of his family killed brutally on August 15 in 1975.
The missions observed the day through almost identical programmes of hoisting national flag at half mast, playing national anthem, placing floral wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu, reading out messages from President Md. Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam and holding discussion meetings.
Bangladesh missions in the UN, India, the UK, the USA, Canada, Japan, China, Australia, Pakistan, Singapore, the Netherlands, Turkey, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, France, Nigeria and middle east countries including Saudi Arabia observed the day, according to messages received here.
In a discussion meeting at the Bangladesh permanent mission at the United Nations (UN), Bangladesh permanent representative to the UN ambassador Rabab Fatima mentioned that Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay issued a message marking the 45th martyrdom anniversary of Bangabandhu.
In her message, Azoulay said, “I would like to pay tribute to his life and legacy. Even four and a half decades after his death, the world still remembers his dedication, struggle and sacrifices when fighting for the rights and freedom of his people.”
This year, she informed, UNESCO is joining the world in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth.
Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran, eminent Indian journalists Gautam Lahiri, also a former president of Press Club of India
(PCI), and Dipanjan Roy Chowdhury, a senior correspondent of the Economic Times, took part in a discussion organized by the Bangladesh mission in New Delhi.
“While we mourn the death of Bangabandhu, we also pledge in this Mujib Borsho to turn the grief of his loss into strength and engage ourselves in building a hunger and poverty-free prosperous Bangladesh,” Imran said.
Gautam Lahiri, also an expert of Bangladesh affairs, said the killers could kill Bangabandhu, but they failed to eliminate his ideology (Mujibism), which
focuses on nationalism and secularism, development and global peace.
“He (Bangabandhu) was not only a leader of Bangladesh rather he was the leader in the region,” he added.
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