26 MARCH 2021
The Independence Day of Bangladesh, also referred to as 26 March, is a national holiday. It commemorates the country's declaration of independence from Pakistan in the late hours of 25 March 1971 by the "Father of the Nation" Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman before he was arrested by Pakistani forces.
The day is a memorial to the deaths of thousands of civilians who died in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
