East pakistan

With each passing day in March of 1971, Bengali disobedience grew and the people of East Pakistan eventually erupted. The spirit also touched the Bangalee expatriates living far away. London was one such place where the Bangalees took to the streets for an independent Bangladesh.

Almost forty years ago, Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan in a bloody, scarring war — one whose ghosts still haunt the troubled nation. A look at the grim events of 1971.

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An exhibition of photographs has opened at the Rivington Place gallery, in London, documenting the Bangladesh war of independence

Bangladeshi guerillas gleefully waving the Bangladesh flag as they crowd on and around an Indian Army jeep in Dacca (Dhaka) in December 1971. The fighters have just heard the news that Pakistan Army forces, under the command of general Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, have surrendered to Indian Army forces on 16th December 1971 to mark the end of fighting in the Bangladesh Liberation War.

In 1970, a massive cyclone raced up the Bay of Bengal, toward millions trying to survive a man-made cataclysm.

Soldiers from the Indian Army, at a sign saying, Welcome to ‘What Was’ Pakistan, By Courtesy The Golden Hawk” on the border of India and East Pakistan. During the Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, photo c. December 1971.