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DHAKA, Mar 24, 2025 (BSS) - Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has pledged to build a just society imbued with the spirit of the great War of Independence and the July uprising.

"The interim government aspires to move forward by embracing the spirit of the great War of Liberation and the July uprising to build a just society and establish the rule of law," he said in a message issued today on the occasion of the Genocide Day.

 In the July uprising, he said, the nation was unshackled from the tyranny of dictatorship through the valour of the students and the masses.
"The New Bangladesh will emerge as a strong, peaceful and democratic country- this is our pledge on the Genocide Day," he added.

The ‘Genocide Day' is observed in the country on March 25.
On this day in 1971, Prof Yunus said, the Pakistani invading forces carried out the world's most barbaric crackdown across the country, including Dhaka.

He remembered, with a heavy heart, all the martyrs who sacrificed their lives on that most terrible night, saying the nation is still grieving over this infernal carnage.

During those days of March 1971, when all of Bangladesh was turbulent in movement, the military dictator Yahya secretly left Dhaka on the evening of March 25, amidst the non-cooperation movement, the Chief Adviser said.

That night, he said, Pakistani troops launched 'Operation Search Light' and carried out the most brutal massacre in the history on sleeping unarmed people.

Prof Yunus said thousands of innocent people, including students, teachers, police, and army personnel, were martyred across the country, including Dhaka University, Pilkhana and Rajarbagh in the sudden attacks by the invading forces equipped with sophisticated weapons.

"It was through their sacrifices that we achieved our desired independence through a nine-month long bloody war of liberation," he said.

The Chief Adviser prayed for the salvation of the souls of all martyrs who killed on the night of March 25 in 1971.