[3] On 1 January 1973, after the planned students' gathering at Bot Tola students were moving in rally to give a memorandum to the American Embassy at Dhaka.
The police tried to disperse the protesters and fired on the rally.
Bangladesh Students Union activists Matiul Islam and Mirza Kaderul Islam died in the police firing, and many students were seriously injured..[1] The incident instigated the students into starting another movement was made against this brutality.
On pressure, Sheikh Mujib's government sought apology and accepted demands of the students, later, in which, recognizing Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam was included as a point of demands.
[5] The day of the firing is marked every year by left-leaning organizations in Bangladesh.