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On 11 February 2019, Awami League politician Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury expressed the desire to rename the museum to Liberation War Memorial Museum. He felt that the building is a witness to the torture of victims by the Pakistani army during the liberation war and that's why its name needs to be changed to show the people the real contribution of the building to history.
On 31 December 1975, about 11,000 war criminals were released, including 752 convicts, by canceling the 'Bangladesh Collaborators (Special Tribunals) Order, 1972'. Zia took several controversial steps to discipline the army and consolidate power, and to gain the support of some right-wing political parties such as the Jamaat-e-Islami .
Pakistan's activities during the Bangladesh Liberation War served as a catalyst for India's military intervention in support of the Mukti Bahini, triggering the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The conflict and the genocide formally ended on 16 December 1971, when the joint forces of Bangladesh and India received the Pakistani Instrument of Surrender .
81 high-level insurgent leaders and thousands of low-level insurgents killed [123] Large number of insurgents killed while some fled to Afghanistan [124] Most recent drone strike launched in January 2018 [125] Fifth Balochistan Conflict (2004–present) [126] Pakistan: BLA BLF LeB BLUF BSO (Azad) BNA (2022–2023) BRA (2006–2022) UBA (2013 ...
The Bangladesh Liberation War against the country West Pakistan began on 26 March 1971, grew into the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and ended with the victory of Bangladesh on 16 December 1971. On 14 December, sensing imminent defeat, Pakistani forces and their local collaborators— Al-Badr —abducted and killed front-line Bengali intellectuals ...
August-November: Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi heads Pakistan's first caretaker government after Benazir Bhutto's dismissal. [3] October: The United States cuts off aid to Pakistan under suspicion that Pakistan is developing nuclear weapons. [4] [5]
Until then, the Pakistan Army secretly trained a group of Pakistan-supporting madrasa, college and university students. This group was named Al Badar. Later, Al-Badr members came out and selectively killed Bengali professors, doctors, engineers and other intellectuals. Many of those killed were teachers of Dhaka University.
On board the C-130 plane were a total of 30 people (17 passengers and 13 crew members); with Zia-ul-Haq were the United States Ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, Brigadier General Herbert M. Wassom, the chief of the U.S. military mission in Pakistan, and a group of senior Pakistani army officers. The plane had been fitted with an air ...