{{Short description|Bangladesh day of celebration}} {{Distinguish|July Mass Uprising Day}} [[File:Mass uprising 1969 Dhaka University.jpg|thumb|A student procession at the University of Dhaka campus during the mass uprising of 1969.]] '''Mass Uprising Day''' ({{langx|bn|গণঅভ্যুত্থান দিবস}}) is observed in Bangladesh on 24 January to mark the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising, the climax of the movement of the people of the then East Pakistan for autonomy in 1969 that eventually led to the Independence War and emergence of Bangladesh in 1971.<ref name=indep/><ref name=ind/>
On this day in 1969 Matiur Rahman Mallik, a standard IX student of the Nabakumar Institution,<ref name=ind>{{cite news|title=Mass Uprising Day observed|url=http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/metropolitan-news/mass-uprising-day-observed.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323114530/http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/metropolitan-news/mass-uprising-day-observed.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 23, 2012|accessdate=2 September 2011|newspaper=Independent Bangladesh|date=26 January 2008}}</ref><ref name=newagebd>{{cite news|title=Mass Uprising Day today|url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/national/6264.html|accessdate=2 September 2011|newspaper=New Age BD|date=24 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326061148/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/national/6264.html|archive-date=26 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Rustam Ali, a rickshaw-puller,<ref name=newagebd/> were killed in police fire on demonstrators in Dhaka as the Pakistani rulers desperately tried to suppress the popular uprising. The killings sparked off intense protests across the country that eventually saw the fall of the Ayub regime.<ref name=indep>{{cite news|title=Mass Uprising Day observed in Barisal|url=http://theindependentbd.com/paper-edition/metropolitan/others/30906-mass-uprising-day-observed-in-barisal.html|accessdate=2 September 2011|newspaper=Independent Bangladesh|date=25 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331144237/http://theindependentbd.com/paper-edition/metropolitan/others/30906-mass-uprising-day-observed-in-barisal.html|archive-date=31 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
It is said by politicians that the day teaches Bangladeshis the values of democracy<ref name=indep/><ref name=newagebd/> and to protest against oppression.<ref name=newagebd/>
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Politics of East Pakistan Category:Independence of Bangladesh Category:1969 in East Pakistan Category:Annual events in Bangladesh
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