DHAKA: The Jail Killing Day, commemorating the killing of four national leaders inside Dhaka Central Jail, is being observed on Thursday (November 3) across the country in a solemn manner.

Awami League and its associate organizations have chalked out different programs marking the day.

To mark the day, the program 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 7:00 am and the November 3 carnages at Banani graveyard at 7.30am.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will address a discussion at Institution of Agriculturists Auditorium at 3:00pm.

In a message on Wednesday, the premier prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of the four leaders and said such killings in the safe custody of jail are unprecedented in the world.

The message also said the killings of the four national leaders were the sequel to the killing of Father of the Nation and his family members.

Mentioning that a vested quarter is conspiring to hamper trial process of war criminals, Hasina urged the countrymen to be united to resist the conspiracy.

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 killed inside Dhaka Central Jail by the usurpers of state power of former president Khondoker Mostaque Ahmed government.

BDST: 1101 HRS, NOV 03, 2016
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