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1971 Liberation War

Bangladesh Liberation War
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Clockwise from top left: Martyred Intellectuals Memorial, Bangladesh Forces howitzer, Surrender of Pakistan to Indian Armed Forces, the sunken PNS Ghazi
Date 26 March – 16 December 1971
(8 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Location Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), the Bay of Bengal, West Pakistan, the Arabian Sea, parts of North India
Result

Bangladeshi and Indian victory

Territorial
changes
Independence of East Pakistan from Pakistan as Bangladesh
Belligerents

Bangladesh Bangladesh

 India (3-16 December 1971)

 Pakistan

Paramilitary forces:

Commanders and leaders
Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmad
Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani
Kazi Mohammad Shafiullah
Ziaur Rahman
Khaled Mosharraf
Sam Manekshaw
Jagjit Singh Aurora
Jacob Farj Rafael Jacob
Pakistan Yahya Khan
Pakistan Nurul Amin
Pakistan Abdul Motaleb Malik Surrendered
Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi Surrendered
Rao Farman Ali Surrendered
Mohd Jamshed Surrendered
Tikka Khan
Mohammad Shariff Surrendered
Naval Jack of Pakistan.svg Leslie Mungavin Surrendered
Patrick Desmond Callaghan Surrendered
Pakistan Ghulam Azam (East Pakistan Central Peace Committee)
Pakistan Motiur Rahman Nizami (Al-Badr)
Strength
175,000
250,000
Pakistan ~365,000 regular troops (90,000+ in East Pakistan)
~25,000 militiamen
Casualties and losses
~30,000 killed
1,426–1,525 killed
3,611–4,061 wounded
Pakistan ~8,000 killed
~10,000 wounded
~93,000 captured (including 56,694 troops and 12,192 local militiamen)
Civilian death: Estimates range between 300,000 and 3 million.

Bangladeshi and Indian victory

Bangladesh Bangladesh

 India (3-16 December 1971)

 Pakistan

Paramilitary forces:

The Bangladesh Liberation War (Bengali: মুক্তিযুদ্ধ Muktijuddho), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in East Pakistan and the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. It resulted in the independence of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The war began after the Pakistani military junta based in West Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight against the people of East Pakistan on the night of 25 March 1971. It pursued the systematic elimination of nationalist Bengali civilians, students, intelligentsia, religious minorities and armed personnel. The junta annulled the results of the 1970 elections and arrested Prime Minister-elect Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.


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