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Bangladesh: Hindus recount horrors of 1971 after Rangpur arson attack
Op IndiaA day after radical Islamists burnt down 20 Hindu homes in Pirganj Upazila in the Rangpur Division of Bangladesh, the victims recalled the horrors of the 1971 Operation Searchlight on Monday, reported Dhaka Tribune. In the General elections held on December 7 that year, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of the Awami League secured a huge majority in the provincial legislature in East Pakistan. Miffed over the denial of power and autonomy to East Pakistan, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman called the civil disobedience movement, on March 7, 1971. In order to contain the civil and political unrest, the Pakistan army launched Operation Searchlight on March 26, 1971.
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