Operation Searchlight
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title:
Operation Searchlight
text:
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 retrospectively justified the operation on the basis of anti-Bihari violence carried out en masse by the Bengalis earlier that month. Ordered by the central government in West Pakistan, the original plans envisioned taking control of all of East Pakistan's major cities on 26 March, and then eliminating all Bengali op
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Pakistani military operation in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Searchlight
date created:
2005-05-31T02:35:45Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T21:51:01Z
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