Bangladesh liberation war

Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman signals reversal of Yunus govt’s policy of forgetting Pakistan’s 1971 atrocities by calling Operation Searchlight a “pre-planned massacre”

RAW predicted that the Pakistani forces might resort to violence, which may trigger a revolt and give strength to demands for East Pakistan’s independence.

The Hindu victims left their homes for India to save their lives but Razakars informed the Pakistani Army about the movement of Hindus.

Eyewitnesses have asserted that at least 5,000 people were killed by Pakistani army during the Jinjira massacre.

According to The Indian Express, two photographs of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman have been dropped from the Std VI English book. Both the pictures were from 1972.

The relations between India and Bangladesh have been facing a downturn ever since the Sheikh Hasina government was overthrown on August 5, 2024.

Fast forward to 53 years later, and the political landscape of Bangladesh has turned ironic, if not tragic. The country whose independence India had conferred through military intervention now harbours increasing hostility towards India while cuddling up to Pakistan, the very state responsible for unspeakable violence against its own population.

The Vested Property Act has been nothing but a cruel mockery of the Hindus suffering atrocities from all sides. First from the tyrant undivided Pakistan, and later from the Bangladesh government after 1971 war.

'Razakars' were a paramilitary force formed by the Pakistan Army to oppose the independence movement in Bangladesh.