Protesters at Shahbagh Square release balloons into the air to commemorate the ‘Martyrs of the Liberation War’, in Dhaka yesterday. Protests against Jamaat-e-Islami have been held in Dhaka for more than two weeks with demonstrators demanding the party’s leaders be executed for war crimes committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence against Pakistan. The protesters released the balloons around 4:13pm, the moment the Pakistani forces surrendered on December 16, 1971.
