Victory Day (Bangladesh)
Victory Day বিজয় দিবস | |
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16 December | |
Next time | 16 December 2024 |
Frequency | Annual |
Related to | of Bangladesh |
Victory Day (
This day and event is also commemorated across India as the "Vijay Diwas" to honor Bangladeshis who laid down their lives in the war.[2]
History
In 1971 Bangladesh fought the
On 16 December 1971,
The surrender took place at the
In 1996, the Bangladesh Bank issued a 10 Taka note with an overprint commemorating Victory Day's Silver Jubilee (the 25th anniversary).[10][11]
Recognition of Bangladesh
The Surrender of
Celebration
The celebration of Victory Day has been taking place since 1972. The Bangladesh Liberation War became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts in Bangladesh. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: Military Parade by the
Military parade
The day's highlight is the national holiday parade on Dhaka's National Parade Ground, hosted by the Bangladesh Armed Forces and involves personnel from the Bangladesh Police, Border Guard Bangladesh, Bangladesh Jail and Bangladesh Ansar. Presided by the President of Bangladesh in his capacity as Commander in Chief through the Armed Forces Division,[17] it has been held since the 1970s as the principal national celebrations of the victory of the Bangladeshi people against the government of Pakistan, assisted by the Indian Armed Forces, and as such it is the principal holiday of the Armed Forces. A televised event with nationwide radio simulcast provided by Bangladesh Television and Radio Bangladesh, it is the country's main military parade event of the year and is one of the biggest annual military parades in South Asia.[18][19]
Expanded summary
Before around 10am, a division-sized formation of around 18,000 personnel of the armed forces and law enforcement organisations, which had already been assembled on the parade ground, alongside a 4,000 strong mobile column amounting to around 400 vehicles, and a massed
At 10am the massed bands' fanfare trumpeters and trumpeters sound the presidential fanfare, signalling the arrival of the President, escorted by an Army mounted squadron and escort motorcycles of the Police. As the President leaves his vehicle, he is greeted by the important dignitaries and upon arriving at the central grandstand the Parade Commander, usually an Army major general, leads the parade in rendering a full presidential salute as while the national anthem Amar Sonar Bangla is played by the Massed Bands alongside the firing of a 21-gun salute. As the music ends, the parade executes order arms, following this the PC informs the President of the readiness of the parade for the review. Both, together with aides-de-camp (one each from the Armed Forces and Police) and the PSO, ride an open-top Land Rover to inspect the parade formations. Upon approach of the parade formations the massed bands, under the baton of the Senior Director of Music of the Armed Forces (usually a lieutenant colonel or colonel) play a slow march as the President reviews each of the battalions of the ground column. As the music ends the President and the PSO, together with the PC, leave the inspection vehicle as the former two return to the parade grandstand.
Following the conclusion of the inspection of the line the PC, after having ordered the parade to shoulder arms, then informs the president for the commencement of the march past in the following manner:
- Mr. President, may I now ask your permission for the commencement of the parade march past, sir.
The approval having now granted the PC, upon returning to his place in the parade, orders the parade to executive the left turn, after which the colour bearers now turn to take their places in the right flank ranks of the formation together with the leading officer of the battalions. Following this the commander of the National Standards colour guard orders the battalion to turn on the march, taking its place in the formation as the PC rides his vehicle. Following the order to quick march the parade begins with the fly past of aircraft from both the Bangladesh Army Aviation Group and Bangladesh Naval Aviation, both recently founded formations, and the transport planes of the Air Force, as the massed bands play Notuner Gaan. As the parade commander and his second in command approach the grandstand in their vehicles, the two officers, together with their adjutants, salute on the eyes right. They are followed by the infantry battalions, and followed on by a double past of parachute special forces personnel, which had jumped from an Air Force transport plane into the parade ground during the march past, and then by the mobile column and fly past of Air Force fighter and trainer aircraft as well as helicopters.
Order of parade march past in quick time
- Massed colour guard regiment of formation colours of the armed forces (three battalions)
- Veterans of the Liberation War
- 1st Battalion, President Guard Regiment
- Battalion from the Armoured Corps
- Regiment from the Infantry Corps
- Battalion from the East Bengal Regiment
- Battlaion from the Bangladesh Infantry Regiment
- Bangladesh Regiment of Artillery
- Bangladesh Corps of Engineers
- Bangladesh Signals Corps
- National Standards colour guard
- Composite battalion of army service support branches
- Para-Commando BrigadeBattalion
- Battalion of army servicewomen
- Navy
- Air Force
- Bangladesh National Cadet Corps
- Border Guard Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Police
- Bangladesh Ansar
- Bangladesh Jail
- Battalion of female Police and Ansar servicewomen
- Infantry battalion wearing modern combat equipment and rifles
- Army K-9 company and Army and Police combined mounted squadron
Events commemorating Victory Day
- 1971: State Bank of Pakistan became Bangladesh Bank.[20]
- 1972: The constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh was enacted on 16 December.[21]
- 1973: Gallantry awards of war were declared by Bangladesh Gazetteon 15 December.
- 1996: Silver jubilee of victory was celebrated.
- 2013: New world record of the largest human flag was set when 27,117 volunteers gathered at the National Parade Ground holding red and green blocks to form the
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Mikoyan MiG-29 & Chengdu F-7 of Bangladesh Air Force fly over national parade ground
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Bengali Army marching in Victory Day Parade.
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East Bengal Regiment in Victory Day Parade.
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Bengali Coast Guard unit marching in Victory Day Parade.
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Flag hoisting ceremony at a school
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Petrobangla building in Dhaka illuminated by decorative lighting
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Kodom Foara in Dhaka illuminated by decorative lighting
See also
- Independence Day
- Evolution of Pakistan Eastern Command plan
- Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts
- Military plans of the Bangladesh Liberation War
- Mitro Bahini order of battle
- Vijay Diwas (India)
- Victory Day in other countries.
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