21 February international mother language day.

Have you find any nation except Bangladesh who sacrifices their life and blood for their language. Yes I told here the history of our great martyred those sacrifice their life for our language. Since 1952 we proud of them and still now we pray for them and we believe Almighty Allah honor them “Shuhada “top place of our religion. We celebrate this days since 1952, but when UNESCO declare it international mother language days that’s time every country celebrate this day. Now we proud for this day. Personally I’m not go to Shaheed Minar, or the Martyr's monument, but every year this day I pray for them and hardly I believed Almighty Allah give them honored and as a Muslim I believe they are not dead rather they are alive because Almighty Allah said who sacrifice their life for protect any bad activities and died he became honored Shuhada and those who became Shuhada he never ever died , he always alive . So our great person who sacrifices their life they should honor by Almighty Allah.

History of that day

On that day of 21 February 1952, corresponding to 8 Falgun 1359 in the Bangla calendar, a number of students campaigning for the recognition of Bangla as one of the state languages of Pakistan were killed when police fired upon them.

Mohammed Ali Jinnah(the Governor general of Pakistan) declared that the Urdu will be the only language for both west and east Pakistan at a public meeting on 1948, 21 March. The people of the East Pakistan (now Bangladesh, whose main language is Bengali) started to protest against this.

A student meeting on 21 February called for a province-wide strike. But the government invoked Section 144 on 20 February. The student community at a meeting on the morning of 21 February agreed to continue with their protest but not to break the law of Section 144. Even then the police opened fire and killed the students. Salam, Rafique, Barkat, Shifiur and other unnamed person sacrifice their live for our language.

Why International Mother Language Day?

Linguistic and cultural diversity represent universal values that strengthen the unity and cohesion of societies. The recognition of the importance of linguistic diversity led to UNESCO’s decision to celebrate International Mother Language Day.

When was it launched?

The 30th session of the General Conference of UNESCO in 1999 decided that the Organization would launch and observe an International Mother Language Day on 21 February every year throughout the world.

So since 2000 every country celebrate this day international mother language day and as a Bangladeshi we proud for that and we always fight the right of every language.