Contemporary era · 1971
Operation Searchlight
Operation Searchlight was a military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971. Pakistan retroactively justified the operation on the basis of anti-Bihari violence carried out en masse by the Bengalis earlier that month.
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- When
- 25 May 1971
- Where
- East Pakistan
- Era
- Contemporary
Topics
Before and after
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