Black Night 1971' in Bangladesh
MARCH 25, 2018: Prachyanat School of Acting and Design took
out a procession 'Lal Jatra' to observe the dark night of March 25, 1971 on
March 25, 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh
On this black night in the national history,
the Pakistani military rulers launched ''Operation Searchlight'' killing some
thousand people in that night crackdown alone. As part of the operation, tanks
rolled out of Dhaka cantonment and a sleeping city woke up to the rattles of
gunfire as the Pakistan army attacked the halls at Dhaka University, the then
East Pakistan Rifles (now Border Guard Bangladesh) headquarters and Rajarbagh
Police Lines, killing the several thousand unarmed Bengalis on the single
night. The planned and designated centres of offensive operations under that
plan were Dhaka, Khulna, Chittagong, Comilla, Jessore, Rajshahi, Rangpur,
Saidpur and Sylhet areas, where West Pakistani army units were concentrated.
