1971.12.31, Liberation War Museum
December 31, 1971 Border Security Force (BSF) of India will return home from Bangladesh within next two days, a spokesperson in Kolkata says.Almost 100 BSF jawans were killed and 500 wounded during the 14-day long Indo-Pakistan war.General Sam Manekshaw says that the...
1971.12.30, Liberation War Museum
December 30, 1971 Members of the probe committee of intellectual killing meet President Syed Nazrul Islam. The members demand to form a stronger probe committee including personnel from Muktibahini, Allied Force, government officials and civilians. They also request...
1971.12.29, Liberation War Museum
December 29, 1971 A seven-member committee formed at Dhaka Press Club during a meeting of intellectuals to investigate Al-Badr’s genocide of intellectuals. Zahir Raihan will chair the committee. More collaborators of the Pakistanmilitary arrested: Syed Zillur Rahman,...
1971.12.28, Liberation War Museum
December 28, 1971 Awami League decide to commemorate January 9 as ‘Sheikh Mujib Day’ demanding the immediate release of Bangabandhu, a report from ENA says. Sheikh Mujib refrained from radio or newspapers during the nine-month long Liberation War, a source from...
1971.12.27, Liberation War Museum
December 27, 1971 RK Karanjia, an investigative journalist and the founder of Indian weekly tabloid Blitz, writes an article on the Liberation War in Bangladesh. In his article he says that Pakistan army should not be treated as war prisoners but as war criminals....
1971.12.26, Liberation War Museum
December 26, 1971 Sheikh Mujib taken to Rawalpindi as Bhutto id trying to construct a confederation between Bangladesh and Pakistan, reports Hindustan Standard from its London bureau. Bhutto also invites US and Chinese representatives for the meeting. 22 other...
1971.12.25, Liberation War Museum
December 25, 1971 Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad urges the states of the world to acknowledge Bangladesh as an independent and sovereign state. “Bangladesh wants to keep a peaceful diplomatic relation with every state,” he says in a press conference at Bangabhaban. He...
1971.12.24, Liberation War Museum
December 24, 1971 Bangladesh Chhatra Sangram Parishad in a press conference, at Shahid Sergeant Zahurul Haque Hall in Dhaka University, declare they will keep fighting till the Father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is freed from the Pakistan army....
1971.12.23, Liberation War Museum
December 23, 1971 Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad says that those who have intentional and evident participation in the genocide will be prosecuted. They will not get any mercy, he adds. Those who however were compelled to do such acts under pressure they will be...
1971.12.22, Liberation War Museum
December 22, 1971 A flight of Indian Air Force carrying seven members of the provisional government of Bangladesh including Syed Nazrul Islam landsin Dhaka airport. They receive huge reception. Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad in the airport urges the people to imply the...
