Tag: Pakistani Army
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1971 Genocide: Ukhiya Buddhists fled to Arakan to save their lives
After the Pakistani military launched genocide in East Pakistan on March 25, 1971, to suppress the Bengali resistance for an independent Bangladesh, other Bengalis linked to Islamist parties became their supporters and formed auxiliary forces, like the Peace Committee, Razakar, al-Badr, al-Shams, and Mujahid Bahini, across the country. The collaborators were mainly tasked with assisting…
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Remembering Dhaka’s Operation Searchlight
The nation will recall the “Black Night of March 25” today in commemoration of the cowardly attack on the unarmed Bangalees by the barbarous Pakistani occupation forces in 1971. In the dreadful operation dubbed as “Operation Searchlight,” the Pakistani occupation forces mercilessly killed the Bangalee members of EPR (East Pakistan Rifles, now BGB) and police,…
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