DECEMBER: The Eternal Month of Victory For Bangladesh

December is not merely a page in the calendar for Bangladesh; it is the month in which an entire nation breathes differently.

It is the season when the soil remembers, the sky stands witness, and history reasserts itself with unyielding pride. This is the Month of Victory—Bijoy Dibosh—the consecrated chapter when Bangladesh broke free from the genocidal shackles of Pakistan in 1971 and emerged as a sovereign nation on 16 December 1971 forged by blood, sacrifice, and an unwavering moral destiny.

Every December, the red-green flag flutters not just as a symbol of statehood but as a sacred emblem of triumph against tyranny. As the winter wind sweeps across our rivers and plains, it seems to whisper the names of the martyrs—those countless sons and daughters who embraced death so that Bangladesh might live. They were students and farmers, women and children, peasants and poets, teachers and soldiers—ordinary people who accomplished the most extraordinary liberation struggle of the 20th century.

Let us recall the moral magnitude of 1971. In nine months, Pakistan’s occupation forces and their local collaborators—Razakars, Al-Badrs, Al-Shams belong to Jamaat-e-Islami, PDP, Nezam-e-Islami, Muslim League (Convention), et al,—unleashed one of the most systematic genocides since the Second World War. Three million of Bangladesh’s people were murdered, and three thousand mothers and sisters were violated in an orgy of barbarism that still stains the conscience of humanity. Villages were torched, mosques, temples desecrated, intellectuals executed with chilling precision. Yet, amid this inferno, Bangladesh rose—undaunted, united, and unbreakable.

December 16, 1971, stands as the luminous crest of that struggle, when 93,000 Pakistani brutal soldiers surrendered at the Racecourse Maidan—the largest military capitulation since World War II. With that single act, the world witnessed a new nation take its rightful place in the community of states. The victory was not just military; it was civilizational—an emphatic rejection of the forces of darkness and fanaticism that sought to erase our identity, democracy, and cultural soul.

Today, more than half a century later, the spirit of December must remain our compass. Victory is not an artifact encased in museum glass; it is a living mandate. It calls upon us to defend the secular, democratic, and humane ideals upon which Bangladesh was founded. In a time when conspiratorial forces often try to distort history, glorify collaborators, or undermine the Liberation War’s legacy, December reminds us that some truths are immutable and non-negotiable.

Bangladesh’s Month of Victory is an annual moral audit. It asks: Are we worthy of the sacrifices of 1971?

It demands that we safeguard the values for which our martyrs died. It urges us to confront any resurgence of the ideological heirs of the Razakars and Al-Badrs who once betrayed this land. And it insists that we remain eternally vigilant against foreign manipulation, internal subversion, and those who would barter our sovereignty for clandestine political gain.

No month sharpens our national consciousness as December does. The Ekushey spirit of linguistic pride, the Mujibnagar Government’s daring diplomacy, the Mukti Bahini’s guerrilla brilliance, the freedom fighters’ blood-etched courage—all of this converges into a radiant reminder that Bangladesh’s freedom was neither accidental nor inherited. It was achieved through deliberate struggle and sustained by the indomitable leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation. His dream was not just political independence, but the birth of a society rooted in justice, equality, and compassion.

As we observe this sacred month, let us also pay homage to those who rebuilt Bangladesh from the ashes of war—teachers who reopened classrooms in roofless schools, farmers who sowed seeds in fields still marked by tank tracks, journalists who chronicled the pain and promise of a reborn nation, and citizens who stitched together a broken country with resilience unmatched in history.

December is therefore not a ritual of nostalgia; it is a renewal of duty. It reminds us that the torch of liberation, once held by the hands of martyrs, now rests with us. Our responsibility is to ensure that the nation they dreamed of—a prosperous, dignified, secular, and democratic Bangladesh—not only survives but thrives.

As the month unfolds, let our hearts ignite with patriotism. Let our actions reflect gratitude. Let our politics honor the Liberation War, not desecrate it. And let every Bangladesh’s people reaffirm the eternal call of 1971: “Joy Bangla.”

Not just as a slogan, but as a commitment to justice, truth, and the national spirit that transcends generations.

December is our reminder that freedom is priceless, that courage is contagious, and that no force—however monstrous—can extinguish the will of a people determined to be free. In this Month of Victory, may Bangladesh stand tall, united, and resolute, forever faithful to the martyrs who gifted us a nation bathed in the crimson of sacrifice and the green of hope.

Let us, in steadfast unity, summon our fullest strength to reclaim the gloried Bangladesh we won at the crimson shores of 1971. Let us strive to restore her to the radiant pedestal she once occupied—won through sacrifice, sanctified by blood, and cherished by generations.

In this spirit, we must stand resolute against all forces—domestic or foreign—trespassed upon our sovereign soil through the miscreants in disguise of pupils’ disruptive events of July and August 2024. A clandestine conspiracy involving global and regional actors, together with the American deep state CIA in league with Pakistan's vilest ISI, Jamaati-Shibir butchers, Dr. Yunus & his accomplices, Dhaka military cantonment born illegitimate political child BNP, some left-leaning political factions and extremum right-winger fundies and installed Dr. Yunus as an illegal and puppet head of Bangladesh's government unlawfully and unconstitutionally on 8 August 2024 removing Bangladesh's most successful HPM Sheikh Hasina only to serve the geo-political interests of American deep state and upended Bangladesh’s constitutional order and installed a leadership lacking public mandate and foundational basis.

But one truth remains unbroken: the people of Bangladesh hold the ultimate authority over their destiny. The legacy of 1971 commands us to defend our sovereignty, our democratic aspirations, and the hard-won dignity of this nation.

More clearly, let us therefore march forward—united, vigilant, and unshaken—so that no force, whether foreign intrigue or internal subversion, may ever again overshadow the achievements earned under legitimate, constitutional governance led by Bangladesh’s most successful HPM Sheikh Hasina through her 15 years of able and dynamic leadership.

Joy Bangla.

Joy Bangabandhu.

Long live victorious Bangladesh.

Written by Anwar A. Khan 

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