The nation is set to celebrate the month of victory with much festivity and enthusiasm amid a series of programmes throughout the month of December that begins yesterday, reports BSS. Forty-six years back on December 16, Bangladesh was liberated from the Pakistani occupation forces after a nine-month-long bloodstained War of Liberation and the supreme sacrifices of three million people and the honour of nearly half a million women. This year the celebration will be intensified as on October 30 last the UNESCO has recognised the historic 7th March Speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as part of the world’s documentary heritage.

Different socio-political, educational and cultural institutions and organisations have chalked out numerous programmes to celebrate the nation’s great victory that was achieved under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The programmes include placing of wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in capital and processions, discussions, photo exhibitions and cultural events.