Dhaka, Dec. 17 -- "This day is a remembrance of our independence. Every year we come here, and now I bring my children. They are the ones who will carry Bangladesh forward," said businessman Faruk Ahmed, explaining why he had brought a boy and a girl to the National Memorial on Victory Day.

"We want to show them what victory means. They have never truly seen it, so we feel a duty to teach them," he added upon his visit on Tuesday.

Acknowledging the ongoing debates surrounding the Liberation War, Faruk said: "No amount of distortion can erase the truth. Had we not achieved independence, we would not be the Bengalis we are today."

Another parent, identified only as Mobarak, accompanied his young daughter and college-aged son in the tradi...