Yesterday marked the 3rd National Genocide Day of Bangladesh. On 25 March 1971 late night, the Pakistan Occupation Army started

The nation observes a one-minute blackout commemorating the brutalities and cowardly attacks carried out by the Pakistani occupation forces on the unarmed Bangalees on the black night of March 25 in 1971.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuses the post-1975 rulers of implementing the agenda of the then Pakistani junta to appease Islamabad.

Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board has directed all the madrasas to observe the Genocide Day on March 25 and Independence Day on March 26 in their educational institutions.

Academics and researchers campaigning for the United Nations recognition of March 25 as International Genocide Day yesterday urged the government to launch a formal initiative to that end.