Holding the spirit of the Liberation War, people across the country gathered at various monuments to pay tributes to the national heroes amid calls for trial of the war criminals and voting them out in the national polls.
Streets were flooded with the enthusiastic people carrying banners of different political, social, cultural and professional organisations, and singing patriotic songs.
The nation celebrated the 37th anniversary of liberation saluting the valiant sons and daughters of the soil who made supreme sacrifices for the independence in 1971 with a dream of building a modern democratic state.
Speakers at a painting competition yesterday called on all to inculcate the spirit of the liberation war in children as they are the future of the country.
The painting competition for the children was organised by the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) as part of its month-long Gono Jagoron (Mass Awakening) pro-gramme at the Central Shaheed Minar.
In conversation with Naibuddin Ahmed
With great risk veteran photographer Naibuddin Ahmed captured scathing images of brutality and how people survived the terror unleashed by the Pakistani army in 1971 that helped publicise the war to the world. These images now survive as documents of the Liberation War.
