https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/the-language-movement-starts/ An online archive of chronology of events, documentations, audio, video, images, media reports and eyewitness accounts of the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh in the hands of Pakistan army. Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:07:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/the-language-movement-starts/#comment-4 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:22:54 +0000 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=61#comment-4 […] The Language Movement Starts “Bengalees, who speak Bangla, constitute 54% of the population of Pakistan at its inception. But Urdu is widely favored by the establishment in the Western wing, even if only a tiny minority really speak it. The major native languages in the West are: Punjabi, Baluchi, Sindhi, and Pashtu (Pakhtun). […]

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