What the records say
- When
- 1969
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 23.71° N, 90.41° E
- Description
- Series of communal riots in East Pakistan
- Date from
- year in its name
Placed at the town its title names, Dhaka.
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1969 Dhaka riots starts”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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