Editing Bengali language movement (section)

===21 February===
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At nine o'clock in the morning, students began gathering on the University of Dhaka premises in defiance of Section 144. The university vice-chancellor and other officials were present as armed police surrounded the campus. By a quarter past eleven, students gathered at the university gate and attempted to break the police line. Police fired [[tear gas]] shells towards the gate to warn the students.<ref name="Banglapedia" /> A section of students ran into the Dhaka Medical College while others rallied towards the university premises cordoned by the police. The vice-chancellor asked police to stop firing and ordered the students to leave the area. However, the police arrested several students for violating section 144 as they attempted to leave. Enraged by the arrests, the students met around the [[East Bengal Legislative Assembly]] and blocked the legislators' way, asking them to present their insistence at the assembly. When a group of students sought to storm into the building, police opened fire and killed a number of students, including [[Abdus Salam (language martyr)|Abdus Salam]], [[Rafiq Uddin Ahmed]], [[Sofiur Rahman|Shafiur Rahman]], [[Abul Barkat]] and [[Abdul Jabbar (activist)|Abdul Jabbar]].<ref name="Banglapedia" /><ref>{{cite news
 | title =Dhaka Medical College Hostel Prangone Chatro Shomabesher Upor Policer Guliborshon. Bishwabidyalayer Tinjon Chatroshoho Char Bekti Nihoto O Shotero Bekti Ahoto
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 | work =The Azad
 | date =22 February 1952
 }}</ref> The Government reported that 29 people died in that day.<ref>{{cite news|title=RED DANGER SEEN IN EAST PAKISTAN: Bengal Premier Foresees New Trouble, Though Recent Outbreaks Were Curbed|first=Michael|last=James|date=11 March 1952|newspaper=New York Times}} {{ProQuest|112392067}}</ref> As the news of the killings spread, disorder erupted across the city. Shops, offices and public transport were shut down and a general strike began.<ref name="UStudies" /> At the assembly, six legislators including [[Manoranjan Dhar]], Boshontokumar Das, Shamsuddin Ahmed and [[Dhirendranath Datta]] requested that chief minister [[Nurul Amin]] visit wounded students in hospital and that the assembly be adjourned as a sign of mourning.<ref name="bashir377393">{{Harvnb|Al Helal|2003|pp=377–393}}</ref> This motion was supported by some treasury bench members including [[Maulana Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish]], Shorfuddin Ahmed, Shamsuddin Ahmed Khondokar and Mosihuddin Ahmed.<ref name="bashir377393" /> However, Nurul Amin refused the requests.<ref name="Banglapedia" /><ref name="bashir377393" />

On the same day, the East Bengal Organizing Committee of the [[East Pakistan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)|East Pakistan Communist Party]] circulated a cyclostyled manifesto entitled "To build a united East Bengal Tumdal United Movement against the barbaric killings of the tyrant [[Amin ministry|Nurul Amin government]]", calling on all institutions and the multi-lingual public of Pakistan, regardless of party affiliation.  Support is invited for the following demands:
* Leaving chair by Nazim Nurul Amin Sarkar 
* Want to make Bengali one of the national languages immediately
* We want the punishment of the killer, we want a private commission of inquiry, we want full compensation for the dead and injured.
* Seek immediate release of all political prisoners,
* Demand withdrawal of Security Act, Section 144 and all repressive laws.<ref>পূর্ব বাংলার ভাষা আন্দোলন ও তৎকালীন রাজনীতি, (East Bengal language movement and contemporary politics) Volume III, Badruddin Umar, 1972, page 316-317</ref>