A small village in East Bengal. A life full of green paddy fields, the sound of the river and people's hard work. A young man was born in that village - Rafiq.
He works in the fields during the day and falls under the lamp at night. But there is a dream in his mind - one day this country will be independent, will have its own flag, will have its own language.
February 1952. In Dhaka, students took to the streets with the slogan "Bangla Bhasha Rashtra Bhasha Chai". Rafiq's chest trembled. He thinks, "This is not just a movement in the city, it is a struggle for all of us." So he went to Dhaka, joined the procession.
21st February—that day in history. Rafiq, Salam, Barkat, Jabbar - how many other youths were martyred by the police. The right to Bengali language was born in their blood, and the seeds of freedom were sown in that blood.
In 1971, that seed grew and became the tree of liberation war.
Rafiq's younger brother Mizan was young at the time. Seeing the injustice of West Pakistan rule, he took up arms. Shouting "Jai Bangla" he jumped into battle.
Rafiq's blood and Mizan's courage combined with the sunrise on 16 December 1971, the red-green flag of Bangladesh flew.
When Mizan returns to the village after the war, his mother pulls him to her chest and says,
"Rafiq went for the language, you came back for the country. Today my flag is colored by your blood."
Blood of martyrs in red, hope of a free land in green - this is the birth of a flag.
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