Dhaka, March 26 -- Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan said on Wednesday that Bangladesh is now fully independent and that its citizens will never feel enslaved on this land again.

"The country is now fully independent. The bloody people's uprising of February 24 protected the independence we gained in 1971. This independence will remain in the days to come. Never again will the people of this country feel enslaved on an independent land," he told reporters after paying tribute to the martyrs of the Liberation War at the National Martyrs' Memorial in Savar on the occasion Independence and National Day, UNB reports.

He reflected on the significance of the 1971 Liberation War, saying, "1971 gave birth to the country, which...