Mass Uprising Day
Mass Uprising Day ({{langx|bn|গণঅভ্যুত্থান দিবস}}) is observed in Bangladesh on 24 January to mark the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising, the climax of the movement of the people of the then East Pakistan for autonomy in 1969 that eventually led to the Independence War and emergence of Bangladesh in 1971.
File:Mass uprising 1969 Dhaka University.jpg campus during the mass uprising of 1969.]]
On this day in 1969 Matiur Rahman Mallik, a standard IX student of the Nabakumar Institution,{{cite news|title=Mass Uprising Day observed|url=http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/metropolitan-news/mass-uprising-day-observed.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323114530/http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/metropolitan-news/mass-uprising-day-observed.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 23, 2012|accessdate=2 September 2011|newspaper=Independent Bangladesh|date=26 January 2008}}{{cite news|title=Mass Uprising Day today|url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/national/6264.html|accessdate=2 September 2011|newspaper=New Age BD|date=24 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326061148/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/national/6264.html|archive-date=26 March 2012|url-status=dead}} and Rustam Ali, a rickshaw-puller, were killed in police fire on demonstrators in Dhaka as the Pakistani rulers desperately tried to suppress the popular uprising. The killings sparked off intense protests across the country that eventually saw the fall of the Ayub regime.{{cite news|title=Mass Uprising Day observed in Barisal|url=http://theindependentbd.com/paper-edition/metropolitan/others/30906-mass-uprising-day-observed-in-barisal.html|accessdate=2 September 2011|newspaper=Independent Bangladesh|date=25 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331144237/http://theindependentbd.com/paper-edition/metropolitan/others/30906-mass-uprising-day-observed-in-barisal.html|archive-date=31 March 2012|url-status=dead}}
It is said by politicians that the day teaches Bangladeshis the values of democracy and to protest against oppression.