PropertyValue
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Operation Searchlight
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
skos:prefLabel
  • Operation Searchlight
skos:altLabel
  • force
  • crackdown
  • Bangladesh
  • military operations
  • until 1971
  • military operation
  • Searchlight
  • crushed
  • military actions
  • brute force
  • cracked down
  • military crackdown
  • ''Searchlight''
  • 1971 Operation Searchlight
  • 1971 operation
  • 25 March
  • 25 March massacre
  • 25th March of 1971
  • their hostile military action against Bengali citizens
  • Dampara Police Lines
  • March 25th crackdown
  • Operation searchlight
  • Pakistan's military action in 1971
  • Pakistani Military action
  • Pakistani crackdown on 25 March
  • army operation in East Pakistan in 1971
  • brutal crackdown
  • genocidal crackdown
  • military aspects
  • military deployments and actions
  • military operation in East Pakistan
  • military solution
  • violently
clgo:causalties
  • 10,000+KIAor wounded
  • Mukti Bahini:
  • ~4,000+POWs
clgo:combatant
  • *
  • Supported by:
  • *United States
  • *Mukti Bahini
  • *Pakistan Armed Forces
  • *Awami League
  • Bangladesh Provisional Government
clgo:commander
clgo:date
  • 1971-03-26
clgo:isPartOfMilitaryConflict
clgo:notes
  • Civilian death toll: 300,000–3,000,000 Bengali civilians and ~150,000+Biharicivilians
clgo:place
clgo:result
  • * Organization of anti-Pakistan Bengali popular resistance
  • * Start of theGenocideand theLiberation War
  • * TemporaryWest Pakistani military success
  • Pakistani operational success
clgo:strength
  • Reinforcements:
  • Pakistan Army:
  • Paramilitary Forces:
  • * 1 armoured regiment
  • * 1,800 East Pakistani police personnel
  • * 14th Infantry Division
  • * 16th Infantry Division
  • * 1destroyer
  • * 1patrol boat
  • * 20North American Sabrejets
  • * 3T-33jet trainers
  • * 4 helicopters
  • * 4gunboats
  • * 5C-130 Herculestransport aircraft
  • * ~13,000East Pakistan Rifles
  • * ~3,000East Pakistan Rifles
  • * ~8,000Bengalitroops fromEast Bengal Regiment
  • *9th Infantry Division
  • * ~30,000+ East Pakistani police andBangladesh Ansarpersonnel armed with.303 rifles
  • Bengali Resistance Forces:
  • Land Reinforcements:
  • * Unknown number of ex-servicemen andcivilian volunteers
  • Pakistan Air Force:
  • Pakistan Navy:
is clgo:battle of
is clgo:isPartOfMilitaryConflict of