Editing Bengali language movement (section)

===Continued unrest===
[[Image:22 Feb 1952 DURoad.jpg|thumb|22 February rally after ''[[Islamic funeral|janaja]]'' at Dhaka Medical College on the University Dhaka road, Dhaka.]]
Through the night of 23 February, students of Dhaka Medical College worked on the construction of a ''Shaheed Smritistombho'', or Monument of Martyrs. Completed at dawn on 24 February, the monument had a handwritten note attached to it with the words ''"Shaheed Smritistombho"''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/its-true-3041 |title=Its True! |date=21 February 2015 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref> Inaugurated by the father of the slain activist Sofiur Rahman, the monument was destroyed on 26 February by police.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Shaheed_Minar |title=Shaheed Minar |last=Rafique |first=Ahmed |website=Banglapedia |access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref> On 25 February, industrial workers in the town of [[Narayanganj]] observed a general strike.<ref>{{Harvnb|Umar|2004|p=218}}</ref> A protest followed on 29 February whose participants faced severe police beating.<ref name="umarnarayan">{{Harvnb|Umar|1979|pp=417–418}}</ref>

The government censored news reports and withheld exact casualty figures during the protests. Most pro-government media held [[Hindus]] and [[East Pakistan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)|communists]] responsible for encouraging the disorder and student unrest.<ref>{{Harvnb|Al Helal|2003|pp=515–523}}</ref> The families of Abul Barkat and Rafiq Uddin Ahmed tried to charge the police with murder, but the charges were dismissed by the police. On 8 April government report on the incidents failed to show any particular justification for police firings on the students.<ref>{{Harvnb|Al Helal|2003|pp=546–552}}</ref>