The government has decided to observe a one-minute “blackout” on the night of March 25, marking the Genocide Day for the seventh consecutive years, reports BSS.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal came up with the decision after emerging from a law and order meeting on the occasion of the Genocide Day on March 25, Independence on March 26 at his ministry.
He said like previous years, the ‘blackout’ programme will be observed for one minute from 10:30 pm to 10:31 pm on the night of March 25 across the country to pay homage to those who were killed in the ‘Operation Searchlight’ launched by the then Pakistani occupation forces on that dreadful Night of March 25 in 1971.
Additional security measures will also be taken on the occasion of the blackout observance as well as the Genocide Day and the Independence Day, he added.
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