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Mukti Bahini (Template:Lang-bn "Freedom fighters" or "Liberation Army) were the East Pakistani militants who fought against the Pakistan Army in Bangladesh Liberation War (1971).
Background
Main article: Bangladesh Liberation WarIt mainly constituted Bengali Military, Paramilitary, and civilians, in response to Operation Searchlight, a violent planned military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in the erstwhile East Pakistan in 1971.
They used guerrilla warfare tactics to fight against the Pakistan Army. India provided economic, military and diplomatic support to the Mukti Bahini rebels, leading West Pakistan to launch Operation Chengiz Khan, a preemptive attack on the western border of India which started the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.The operation also precipitated the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities and caused roughly 10 million refugees to flee to India as well as the death of 1 - 3 million civilians. Essentially Bengali intelligentsia, academics and Hindus were targeted for the harshest treatment, with significant indiscriminate killing taking place. These systematic killings enraged the Bengalis, who declared independence from Pakistan, to achieve the new state of Bangladesh
Involvement in War
Mukti Bahini fought against Pakistan army in various battlegrounds throughout the country and also performed guerilla operations in different army camps and establishments. Near the end of the war they rescued thousands of rape victims who were forcefully kept as slaves at Pakistani army camps.
War Crimes
Mukti Bahini ran various torture camps throughout the East Pakistan, where non-Bengali people, mainly West Pakistanis and Bihari people were kidnapped and tortured to death, often skinned alive, burnt and physically tormented. Thousands of Pakistani females regardless of age were brutally raped and murdered. Various estimates put these figures to minimum of 50,000 to 1 million killed.
Dissolution
On 16 December 1971, the allied forces of the Mukti Bahini and the Indian army defeated the Pakistani Army deployed in the East. The resulting surrender was the largest in number of prisoners of war since World War II. Many Mukti Bahini units were later incorporated in Bangladesh Army and many left for their regular service in Indian BSF and Army.
References
- Jahan, Rounaq (1 February 1973). "Bangladesh in 1972: Nation Building in a New State". Asian Survey. 13 (2): 31. doi:10.2307/2642736.
- Eyal Benvenisti (23 February 2012). The International Law of Occupation. Oxford University Press. pp. 189–. ISBN 978-0-19-163957-9. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- The War Heroine Speaks: A Special Series on Women & Bangladesh’s Independence War | ANUSHAY'S POINT
- Statistics Of Pakistan's Democide
- When The Indian Sponsored Mukti Bahni Murdered 1 Million Biharis | PKKH.tv
- Helal Uddin Ahmed. "Mukti Bahini". In Sirajul Islam (ed.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.