A symbolic blackout program will be observed on Tuesday (March 25) from 10:30 pm to 10:31 pm (1 minute) to commemorate the 1971 genocide. At this time, all lights will be turned off and silence will be observed together. However, KPI and emergency facilities will be exempted from the program.

The Pakistani occupying forces killed people indiscriminately on this night in 1971 under the name of ‘Operation Searchlight’. Lakhs of Bengalis were killed in different places in Bangladesh in one night. To commemorate this day, the government declared March 25 as National Genocide Day in 2017. This information was given in a press release of the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs on Sunday (March 23).

The release said that on Tuesday, a memorial and discussion meeting on the March 25 genocide will be held in all educational institutions including schools, colleges, madrasas and other educational institutions across the country with the participation of eminent personalities and heroic freedom fighters. Rare photographs and documentaries on the genocide will be broadcast in all city corporations including Dhaka. These programs will be broadcast by Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar. Special prayers will be offered in all mosques of the country after Zuhr or at convenient times, seeking the forgiveness of the souls of the martyrs.

In addition, the Liberation War Museum will light candles at the museum’s Shikha Chirantan premises at 6:30 pm in memory of the last night, and theater organizations will hold separate programs along with the ‘Lal Yatra’ from the self-made Independence Square of Dhaka University to the Smriti Chirantan Square on Fuller Road in memory of the genocide at 4:30 pm.