Stock Photo - Terracotta image commemorating the Language Martyrs, inaugurated at Bangla Academy premises on 1st February, 2007 The academy holds its annual book fair throughout this month of historic language movement February 21st marks the ‘International Mother Language Day’ and the Language Martyrs’ Day in memory of the students and others who were killed on 21st February 1952, while opposing the West Pakistan government´s attempt to deny Bangla as the state language Dhaka, Bangladesh February 8, 2009

Stock Photo: Terracotta image commemorating the Language Martyrs, inaugurated at Bangla Academy premises on 1st February, 2007 The academy holds its annual book fair.