(1969-1971)

MAIN ARTICLES 1971 BANGLADESH OFROCITIES OPERATION SEARCH LITHG AND BANGLADESH LIBRATION WAR.

During the rule of yahya khan the people east pakistan protested against various political and enocomic disparties that had been imposed on them by west pakistan and massive civil unrest broke out in east pakistan during operations aganist these rebles which was called operation searchlight, some factions of the pakistan army were responisbll for the 1971, Bangladesh atrocites beginning with the start operations searchlight on 25 march 1971, and due the Bangladesh liberation war. There were numerous human Right abuses in Gast Pakistan(Now Bangladesh) perpetrated by the pakistan Army. with sport from local political and religious militas especially aganist hindu. Time reported a high ranking us official as saying it is the most incredibll calcultaed thing since the days of the nazis in poland. The orginal plan envisioned taking control of the major cities on 26 march 1971, and the elimminating all  oposittion political or with in one month. The prolonged  Bengail resistanee was not anticipad by pakistan planners. The main phase of operation search light ended with the fall of the last major twon in Bengali hands in the mid of may soon heavy fighting broke out between the pakistan army and the Indian backed bangli rebell in.

This period the pakistan army killed an estimate ranging form 26,000 to as many 3 million people. In December 1971, pakistan attacked INDIA western Air bases in an attempt to thwart INDIAN support for the rebels. This officially led to start of the Pakistan-India war of 1971 in the eastern theatre the pakistan army was decimated by the Indian army rebles while in the western front the pakistan army was dffeated in the Battles of basanter and Longewalla on 16, December 1971, lt Genral Amir abudl Khan niazi co , of  Pakistan Army Forces located in east pakistan signed the instrument of surrendr over 93,000 pakistani personnel surrehdered to the joint indian and bangli forces making it the largest surrender since world war war in 1997. R.J Rummel published a book called statistics of domicde Genocide and mass murder since 1900. Chapter called statistics of pakistan demicde estimates calculation and sources. he looks at the 1971,  Bangli libeoation war Rummel worte in east pakistan(Bangladesh), the president and his top Generals also plamed to murder its bengali intellectual cultural and political elite. They also planned to indiscrimnataly murder hunndreds of thousands of its Hindus and drive the rest into India and they planned to destory its economic base to insure that it would be subordinate to west pakistan for least a generation to come.

This plane may be perceived as genocide according to maj(retd) Agha humayn amin, the pakistan army commanders had not seriously considered an indian invasion of east pakistan unitl december 1971, because it was presumed that the Indian military wuld not Risk intervention by China of the united states(US), who were generally close Pakistan allies maj mazhar states that the pakistan Army senior Commando failed to realize that the Chinese would be unable to intervene during the winter months of Novmber to December. Due to snowbound himalayan passes and the (US), had not made any real effort to persuade India aganist attacking  East Pakistan.