The Interim government has undertaken a month-long programme to mark the first anniversary of the July mass uprising.
The details of this special programme were announced in a statement issued by the chief advisor鈥檚 press wing on Tuesday.
At a press conference on June 19, cultural affairs adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki said that a special programme was taken to commemorate the mass uprising.
He said that the programme would begin on July 1 but the main event would start on July 14 and continue till August 5.
The adviser said that the main purpose of the programme was to bring back the feeling that united the whole of Bangladesh in July.
On July 1, prayers will be offered in mosques, temples, pagodas and churches, including other places of worship, in memory of the martyrs. July calendar will be announced. A mass signature campaign will be launched demanding justice for the murderers of the July massacre, which will continue till August 1. National University scholarships will be launched in memory of the July martyrs.
A nationwide poster campaign will be launched on July 5 to inform people of how oppression and repression the ousted illegal Awami government carried out at different times.
A website called Julyforever.org will be launched on July 7.
Video of July 14 will be shared and testimony of a martyr鈥檚 family will be taken, which will continue until July 36. This day has been mentioned as the July Women鈥檚 Day. On this day, a July martyr memorial will be established in every district. Shilpakala Academy will screen July videos in 64 districts and every university in the country. Documentary screening, projection mapping and July songs will be arranged at TSC. Drone show will be exhibited.
On July 15, July remembrance and documentary screening and July songs will be arranged. LED wall installation will be held at Dhaka University. Projection mapping and documentary screening will be organised at various universities.
On July 16, Shilpakala Academy will screen 鈥榁R shows鈥� in three divisional cities. Shaheed Abu Sayeed memorial programme will be held at Rangpur Begum Rokeya University. July songs and drone show will be exhibited in Chattogram.
On July 17, symbolic coffin procession will be held. 鈥楯uly remembrance鈥� programmes will be arranged at public universities in the country. July 17 experience narration programme will be held by teachers of various private and public universities. Documentary exhibition of teachers will be exhibited in different universities of the country.
Other programmes include nationwide programme in memory of child martyrs, 鈥楪raffiti and painting in the colours of 24鈥� competition in secondary and higher secondary schools nationwide, programme in memory of child martyr Riya Gope in Narayanganj, programme remembering child martyrs, installation of an iconic sculpture with the theme of July child martyrs at Shishu Academy and publication of a graphic novel based on the July movement for children, book fair featuring books on July at Bangla Academy.