The war began when the Pakistani military junta based in West Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight against the people of East Pakistan on the night of 25 March 1971. It resulted in the independence of the Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Liberation War ( Bengali: মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, pronounced ), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in what was then East Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. Giriĩ0,000-93,000 captured (including 79,676 troops and 10,324-12,192 local militiamen) Ĭivilian deaths: Estimates range between 300,000 and 3 million. (Second-in-Command, Bangladesh Forces) V. ( Prime Minister of Provisional Government of Bangladesh)
( President of Provisional Government of Bangladesh) East Pakistan secedes from Pakistan as the People's Republic of Bangladesh
