V-Day events at DU
Teachers and students of Dhaka University (DU) yesterday celebrated the 40th anniversary of Victory Day amid much enthusiasm, festivity and the demand to speed up the trial of war criminals.
Hundreds of DU students thronged the campus streets just as the celebrations began at a minute past midnight with rockets illuminating the night sky and balloons being released and rising above Raju Bhaskorjo before Teacher-Student Centre (TSC).
While the usual candle-lit processions and cultural functions were held, a campus-based socio-cultural organisation's darts game caught everyone's attention as the targets were effigies of the accused war criminals.
Slogan 71, another cultural organisation, made a Bangladesh flag measuring around 54 feet by 26 feet. Another cultural group, Backbencher, made a huge map of Bangladesh using mud before the TSC gate.
The campus was decorated with colourful lights while the historic speech which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivered at Race Course Maidan on March 7, 1971 and patriotic songs were played on loudspeakers in the student dormitories.
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