TheBangladesh War of Independence started on 26 March 1971 and ended on 16 December 1971. Some of the major events of the war are listed in thetimeline below.
25 March to 26 March: Pakistan Army starts crackdown in the form ofOperation Searchlight inDhaka and the rest of the country, attacking general civilians, political activists, students, and Bengali members of armed forces and police.[7]
26 March: At 1:15 am,Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is arrested at his home by a Pakistani commando company.[8][9][10][11] The Independence of Bangladesh is declared by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a few minutes before he was arrested by the Pakistan army.
27 March: Independence of Bangladesh is again declared by Maj.Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,[12][13]Santahar massacre is committed by the Mukti Bahini, thousands of non-Bengalis are attacked by Mukti Bahini members.[14]
13 October: Dhaka guerrillas killAbdul Monem Khan, governor of East Pakistan.
28 October to 3 November:Battle of Dhalai in which 3 companies (215 soldiers) of the Jat Regiment (2 JAT) of Indian Army defeated a battalion (800 soldiers) of 30th Frontier Force Rifles (30 FFR) of Pakistan Army.[19][20][21]Hamidur Rahman ofMukti Bahini was posthumously awarded theBir Sreshtho, the highest recognition of bravery in Bangladesh.[22]
31 October to 3 November:Battle of Dhalai: Allied attack fromTripura into East Pakistan to stop Pakistani cross-border shelling.
14 November to 4 December: TheBattle of Kamalpur began, where Pakistani troops defended Kamalpur for 21 days before being ordered to surrender by their superiors.[23][24]
Bangladesh Liberation War Library and Research Centre, a Digital Library, working to 'preserve and publicly distribute' the historical documents regarding the Liberation War of Bangladesh and Genocide of Innocent Bengali People in 1971.
^Gupta, Jyoti Sen (1974).History of freedom movement in Bangladesh, 1943–1973. Naya Prokash. p. 278.OCLC891183528.It was past midnight ... the Pakistani Major looked up at Begum Mujib and said: 'Sorry, we are taking him away'.
^Khan, Fazal Muqueem (1973).Pakistan's Crisis in Leadership. National Book Foundation. p. 72.OCLC976643179.Sheikh Mujib was arrested from his residence in Dhan Mandi at 0130 hours
^Singh, Sukhwant (1980).India's Wars Since Independence. Vol. 1. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House. p. 190.ISBN0-7069-1057-5.
^Cloughley, Brian (2006) [First published 1999].A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 179.ISBN978-0-19-547334-6.
^মুক্তিযুদ্ধে বিমান [Airplanes of liberation war].Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 25 December 2009.
