What the records say
- When
- 25 May 1971
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 23.80° N, 90.41° E
- Description
- Pakistani military operation in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Operation Searchlight
1971 Pakistani army offensive
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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