Bangladeshi fine arts students paint on the street in front of the Shahid Minar, a language movement mausoleum, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 20, 2026, as part of preparations for the forthcoming Language Martyrs Day and International Mother Language Day. Language Martyrs Day is marked in Bangladesh to commemorate those who died during protests on February 21, 1952, against the then Pakistani state government’s decision to name Urdu as the national language, despite East Pakistan's (now Bangladesh) Bengali-speaking majority.
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