“Pak forces carried out the most barbaric crackdown in Dhaka March 25”

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus said on this day in 1971, the Pakistani invading forces carried out the world's most barbaric crackdown across the country, including Dhaka.

He said this in a message issued today on the occasion of the Genocide Day.

During those days of March 1971, when all of Bangladesh was turbulent in movement, the military dictator Yahya secretly left Dhaka on the evening of March 25, amidst the non-cooperation movement, the Chief Adviser said.

That night, he said, Pakistani troops launched 'Operation Search Light' and carried out the most brutal massacre in the history on sleeping unarmed people.

Prof Yunus said thousands of innocent people, including students, teachers, police, and army personnel, were martyred across the country, including Dhaka University, Pilkhana and Rajarbagh in the sudden attacks by the invading forces equipped with sophisticated weapons.

"It was through their sacrifices that we achieved our desired independence through a nine-month long bloody war of liberation," he said.
(Inputs taken from BSS)