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Flower power

Published on
March 6, 1998
Last updated
May 27, 2015

(Photograph) - A Bangladeshi girl places flowers at Dhaka's Shaheed Minar in memory of the four university students shot in 1952 for demanding official language status for Bangla in the former state of East Pakistan. Bangladesh achieved independence in 1971.

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