2022
এবারের সংগ্রাম, আমাদের মুক্তির সংগ্রাম। এবারের সংগ্রাম আমাদের স্বাধীনতার সংগ্রাম। জয় বাংলা! "Our struggle, this time, is a struggle for our freedom. Our struggle, this time, is a struggle for our independence. Joy Bangla!"
The 7 March Speech of Bangabandhu was a speech given by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladseh on 7 March 1971 at the Ramna Race Course in Dhaka to a gathering of over two million people. He announced a civil disobedience movement in the province, calling for "every house to turn into a fortress". At that time when the Pakistani military rulers refused to transfer power to the Bengali nationalist leader Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, whose party Awami League gained majority in the National Assembly of Pakistan in the general election held in 1970. The speech effectively declared the independence of Bangladesh. The speech constitutes a faithful documentation of how the failure of post-colonial nation-states to develop inclusive, democratic society alienates their population belonging to different ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious groups. The speech was extempore and there was no written script. However, the speech survived in the audio as well as AV versions.
On 30 October 2017, UNESCO added the speech in the Memory of the World Register as a "documentary heritage".
The speech lasted about 19 minutes, but its lead the people of Bangladesh to independence in 1971. Bangladeshi people found an ultimate goal to fight for their right, their independence, their country.
we all wanted our rights and our freedom and we wanted them right away. But how were they to come? Was freedom to come through negotiations or would it require us to wage an armed struggle? And what did we understand by armed struggle? Did we really know what it would entail? We knew nothing of it.
Bangabandhu stood far taller than ever before and with him we too stood tall as well, far taller than we could never imagine or even dream of till then. He was always known for being a powerful and spellbinding speaker. But that day, 47 years ago, he outperformed himself a thousand times over, and a thousand times more empowered we felt that day. During that crucial March afternoon, and especially through the electrifying moments of the speech the young Bangabandhu stood towering above the nation, singly shouldering the burden of leading an unprepared people towards an independence struggle that was later to become one of the most brutal.
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