From the OPERATION SEARCH LIGHT to 16 DEC, 1971, there was unlawful, widespread violation of human rights in the Operation search light
It was a planned killing, a military extermination done by the then West Pakistan armies.They tried to eliminate even the root of East Pakistan �s people so that they never could be able to stand against them.
All of these were done according to the order of West Pakistan . Most likely nothing but a sequel of �Operation Blitz� that was happened in
1970. The West Pakistan wanted to capture the most of the East and then they would kill the political, officials, teachers and all man of words but their all tries were came to vain. People of Bangladesh raised their voices against them and inhibited them. The violence resulting from Operation Searchlight was one of the precipitating factor for Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, which led to full fledged Indian retaliation augmented by the Mukti Bahini on Pakistani occupation forces in Bangladesh , resulting in Pakistan Army's unconditional surrender to the joint command of Indian Army and Mukti Bahini on December 16, 1971.
Unlawful killing, rape, torture and violation:
The actual scene of the war
The West Pakistan never thought that was only the beginning of a war.
From the OPERATION SEARCH LIGHT to 16 DEC, 1971, there was unlawful, widespread violation of human rights in the East Pakistan . All of there were happened by the order from West Pakistan . Also some local people and political personnel helped them. They are the war criminals and we called them RAJAKAR , AL -Badr, Al- shams. Bangladeshi authorities claim that 3 million people were killed,[while the Commission. The international media and reference books in English have also published. A further eight to ten million people fled the country to seek safety in India .
From the OPERATION SEARCH LIGHT to 16 DEC, 1971, there was unlawful, widespread violation of human rights in the The Al-Badr, Al- Shams killed a large number of people of intellectual community. There are still undiscovered graves and now we are discovering new graves, till now!! At the first night of war indiscriminate killing was found on students of Dhaka varsity and other communities.
Numerous women were tortured, raped and killed during the war. The exact numbers are not known and are a subject of debate. Bangladeshi sources cite a figure of 200,000 women raped,
giving birth to thousands of war-babies. The Pakistan Army also kept numerous Bengali women as sex-slaves inside the Dhaka Cantonment. Most of the girls were captured from Dhaka University and private homes. There was significant sectarian violence not only perpetrated and encouraged by the Pakistani army but also by Bengali nationalists against non-Bengali minorities, especially Biharis.
Our Glorious 71
Then after 9 months bloody war we have gained our Independence. Our country. Our national anthem. Our language. Bangladesh is our and we feel proud to be a citizen of Bangladesh. There is no other nation in the world who gave their life for language. Now we have our own identity. All of us should love their country.
The Liberation War and the independence was not an act of a single person or event. Rafiq, Saalam, Barqat, Jabbar, and many others gave their life during the Language Movement of 1952. Many were imprisoned and killed protesting Ayub Khan's military rules: 6-point of movement of 1966, Mass Uprising of 1969, etc.
Finally, Bangabandhu asked his people to raise arms against the Pakistani military who killed hundreds of people during the peaceful protests of the 1971.
If you tell the story of the war, you must mention the bravery and far-sightedness of Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam, Captain Monsoor Ali, Kamrujjaman, General Ataul Gani Osmani, and many others.
Three milion people were massacared by the Pakistni military and local collaborators. Hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Village after village, town after town, were burned to the ground. There were dead bodies lying in every plain, and floating in every river. There was hardly any family who did not lose something in this war.
At the very end, facing an imminent defeat, the coward Pakistani military and the local collaborators systematically killed many of the leading intellectuals of the country.
These war criminals have never faced justice for crime against the humanity. We should raise conscience among the people of the world to try these criminals. If we forget, as Elie Weasel depicted, "we are guilty, we are accomplices."
In August 1947, the Partition of British India gave birth to two new states named Pakistan and India . Areas containing the Muslim-majority became Pakistan while areas with Hindu and Non-Muslim majority states became India , which was later pronouced as a secular country with equal rights to citizens of all religions. The new nation of Pakistan included two geographically and culturally separate areas in the east and the west of India . The western zone was popularly (and for a period of time, also officially) termed West Pakistan and the eastern zone (modern-day Bangladesh ) was initially termed East Bengal and later, East Pakistan . It was widely perceived that West Pakistan dominated politically and exploited the East economically, leading to many grievances.
On 25 March 1971, rising political discontent and cultural nationalism in East Pakistan was met by brutal suppressive force from the ruling elite of the West Pakistan establishment in what came to be termed Operation Searchlight.
The violent crackdown by West Pakistan forces led to East Pakistan declaring its independence as the state of Bangladesh and to the start of civil war. The war led to a sea of refugees (estimated at the time to be about 10 million) flooding into the eastern provinces of India . Facing a mounting humanitarian and economic crisis, India started actively aiding and organizing the Bangladeshi resistance army known as the Mukti Bahini.
Declaration of independence:
Official declaration by Shekh Mujib:
Today Bangladesh is a sovereign and independent country. On Thursday night, West Pakistani armed forces suddenly attacked the police barracks at Razarbagh and the EPR headquarters at Pilkhana in Dhaka . Many innocent and unarmed have been killed in Dhaka city and other places of Bangladesh . Violent clashes between E.P.R. and Police on the one hand and the armed forces of Pakistan on the other, are going on. The Bengalis are fighting the enemy with great courage for an independent Bangladesh . May Allah aid us in our fight for freedom. Joy Bangla.
Sheikh Mujib also called upon the people to resist the occupation forces through a radio message. Mujib was arrested on the night of 25�26 March 1971 at about 1:30 a.m. (as per Radio Pakistan �s news on 29 March 1971).
A telegram containing the text of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's declaration reached some students in Chittagong . The message was translated to Bangla by Dr. Manjula Anwar. The students failed to secure permission from higher authorities to broadcast the message from the nearby Agrabad Station of Radio Pakistan . They crossed Kalurghat Bridge into an area controlled by an East Bengal Regiment under Major Ziaur Rahman. Bengali soldiers guarded the station as engineers prepared for transmission. At 19:45 hrs on 27 March 1971, Major Ziaur Rahman broadcast announcement of the declaration of independence on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur. On 28 March Major Ziaur Rahman made another announcement,which is as follows:
This is Shadhin Bangla Betar Kendro. I, Major Ziaur Rahman, at the direction of Bangobondhu sheikh Mujibur Rahman, hereby declare that the independent People's Republic of Bangladesh has been established. At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic. In the name of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, I call upon all Bengalis to rise against the attack by the West Pakistani Army. We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland. By the grace of Allah, victory is ours. Joy Bangla.
Audio of Zia's Announcement (interview - Belal Mohammed)
The Kalurghat Radio Station's transmission capability was limited. The message was picked up by a Japanese ship in Bay of Bengal . It was then re-transmitted by Radio Australia and later by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
M A Hannan, an Awami League leader from Chittagong , is said to have made the first announcement of the declaration of independence over the radio on 26 March 1971. There is controversy now as to when Major Zia gave his speech. BNP sources maintain that it was 26 March, and there was no message regarding declaration of independence from Mujibur Rahman. Pakistani sources, like Siddiq Salik in Witness to Surrender had written that he heard about Mujibor Rahman's message on the Radio while Operation Searchlight was going on, and Maj. Gen. Hakeem A. Qureshi in his book The 1971 Indo-Pak War: A Soldier's Narrative, gives the date of Zia's speech as 27 March 1971.
26 March 1971 is considered the official Independence Day of Bangladesh, and the name Bangladesh was in effect henceforth. In July 1971, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi openly referred to the former East Pakistan as Bangladesh . Some Pakistani and Indian officials continued to use the name "East Pakistan " until 16 December 1971.

The majority ethnic groups of
Name: People�s Republic of Bangladesh
Area: 55,599 sq miles
Population: 163,220,000
Government: Democratic
Language: Bengali
Currency: Taka
Time zone: (GMT+6), But now GMT+7 (temporary)
Phone code: 088
Drivers drive on: Left
Parliament: Jatiyo Sanghad Vaban
Members of :
2. The OIC,
3. SAARC,
4. BIMSTEC,
and
5. the D-8.





