Editing Bengali language movement (section)

===Independence of Bangladesh===
{{Main|Bangladesh Liberation War}}
[[File:Shaheed Minar 1963.png|thumb|The second Shaheed Minar (martyrs' monument) completed in 1963]]
Although the question of official languages was settled by 1956, the military regime of Ayub Khan promoted the interests of [[West Pakistan]] at the expense of [[East Pakistan]]. Despite forming the majority of the national population, the East Pakistani population continued to be under-represented in the civil and military services, and received a minority of state funding and other government help. Due to regional economic, social, and political imbalances, sectional divisions grew,<ref>{{Harvnb|Uddin|2006|pp=120, 126}}</ref> and the Bengali ethnic nationalist Awami League invoked the [[Six point movement|6-point movement]] for greater provincial autonomy. One demand was that East Pakistan be called ''Bangladesh'' (Land/Country of Bengal), which subsequently led to the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref name="B2g" /><ref name="JSToldenburg" />