This Day in History: 1971
This Day in History: 1971
This Day in History: 1971Thursday, December 14, 2017
This Day in History takes us back to 1971, which saw a massacre in Bangladesh carried out by the Pakistani military, with the support of paramilitary forces.
This was the culmination of tensions following the partition of the Indian sub-continent by departing British colonial authorities, which had been exacerbated by Cold War geopolitics.
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