DHAKA: The Jail Killing Day, commemorating the assassination of four national leaders inside Dhaka Central Jail, is being observed Sunday across the country in a solemn manner.

Awami League and its associate organizations have chalked out various programmes marking the day including grand rally at Suhrawardy Udyan.

To mark the day, the programmes include hoisting of the national and party flags at half-mast at Bangabandhu Bhaban and party offices and raising of black flags, wearing of black badges at 6.30 am, placing of wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu on the premises of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi at 7 am and the November 3 carnages at Banani graveyard at 7.30am.

In separate messages on Saturday, President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recalled with gratitude the immense contributions of the slain four national leaders in the country`s Liberation War and other national movements for restoration of people`s fundamental rights.

On this day in 1975, four national leaders and key- personalities in the Bangladesh government in exile Acting President Syed Nazrul Islam, Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed and ministers Captain M Mansur Ali and AHM Quamaruzzaman, who led successfully the Liberation War in absence of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1971, were assassinated inside Dhaka Central Jail by the usurpers of state power of former president Khondoker Mostaque Ahmed government.

BDST: 1020 HRS, NOV 03, 2013
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