Death anniversary

Today is the 17th death anniversary of Shaheed Faruquzzaman Faruque, vice president of Bangladesh Chhatra Moitree Chittagong University unit, says a press release.
He was a frontline activist during the anti-Ershad movement and the movement against declaring Islam as the state religion.
In 1990, after the fall of Ershad's autocratic regime, he was chopped by Shibir cadres at a victory procession on December 23. He succumbed to his injuries the next day.
Since then, Bangladesh Chhatra Moitree has been observing the day as Shaheed Faruque Day.
Different organisations have chalked out various programmes to mark the day, including hoisting black flag atop the central office of the organisation, wearing black badges and paying tribute to him at the Central Shaheed Minar at 10:00am. Same programmes will also be observed in Chittagong and his village home at Brahmanbaria.