SCHEDULE 6. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
BY THE FATHER OF THE NATION, BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHA-MAN SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT OF 25TH MARCH, i.e. EARLY HOURS OF 26TH MARCH, 1971
“This may be my last message, from today Bangladesh is independent. I call upon the people of Bangladesh wherever you might be and with whatever you have, to resist the army of occupation to the last. Your fight must go on until the last soldier of the Pakistan occupation army is expelled from the soil of Bangladesh and final victory is achieved.
Sheik Mujibur Rahman
26 March 1971”
