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Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan as East Pakistan when the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was born in 1947. It was composed of the Muslim part of Bengal. Although there are some improvements in East Pakistan, most Bangladeshis resent their domination by West Pakistani officials. The Awami League was the leading movement in East Pakistan, demanding equal rights for East Pakistanis. Agitation continued in 1960s, and its leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was jailed in 1966, only to be released in 1969 after a popular uprising. The 1970 Bhola cyclone destroyed the coast of East Pakistan, costing half a million lives, and the poor response of the central government only incensed the Bengali population. Pakistani president Abdul Yahya Khan had Mujibur arrested in 1971 and launched Operation Searchligh

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  • Bangladesh (1983: Doomsday)
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  • Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan as East Pakistan when the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was born in 1947. It was composed of the Muslim part of Bengal. Although there are some improvements in East Pakistan, most Bangladeshis resent their domination by West Pakistani officials. The Awami League was the leading movement in East Pakistan, demanding equal rights for East Pakistanis. Agitation continued in 1960s, and its leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was jailed in 1966, only to be released in 1969 after a popular uprising. The 1970 Bhola cyclone destroyed the coast of East Pakistan, costing half a million lives, and the poor response of the central government only incensed the Bengali population. Pakistani president Abdul Yahya Khan had Mujibur arrested in 1971 and launched Operation Searchligh
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religion other
  • Atheism
  • Hinduism
CoGtitle
  • Prime Minister
CoGname
  • Mujahidul Islam Selim
HoSname
  • Manzurul Ahsan Khan
ind date
  • 1971-03-26(xsd:date)
ind from
  • from Pakistan
HoStitle
  • President
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Timeline
  • 1983(xsd:integer)
Name
  • People's Republic of Bangladesh
regime
  • Communist state
Language
  • Bengali
Currency
  • Bangladeshi taka
Population
  • 12221000(xsd:integer)
Religion
  • Islam
Area
  • 147570(xsd:integer)
otl
  • Bangladesh
Capital
  • Dhaka
Anthem
  • Amar Shonar Bangla
Flag
  • Flag of Bangladesh.png
ind rec
  • 1971-12-16(xsd:date)
abstract
  • Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan as East Pakistan when the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was born in 1947. It was composed of the Muslim part of Bengal. Although there are some improvements in East Pakistan, most Bangladeshis resent their domination by West Pakistani officials. The Awami League was the leading movement in East Pakistan, demanding equal rights for East Pakistanis. Agitation continued in 1960s, and its leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was jailed in 1966, only to be released in 1969 after a popular uprising. The 1970 Bhola cyclone destroyed the coast of East Pakistan, costing half a million lives, and the poor response of the central government only incensed the Bengali population. Pakistani president Abdul Yahya Khan had Mujibur arrested in 1971 and launched Operation Searchlight to crush Bengali opposition; about half a million to three million lives were lost. Mujibur in prison declared East Pakistan independent as Bangladesh and called Bengalis to resist. India intervened in the Bangladesh Liberation War and on 16 December 1971, the Bangladeshi resistance defeated the Pakistani army and the Pakistani government conceded. Mujibur was then released and took the office of prime minister. However, this did not solve Bangladesh's immediate problems. A famine in 1973-4 caused mass disaffection. His Awami League won the 1973 election, allegedly, on a fraudulent basis, and when he tried to install one-party rule in 1975, he was assassinated along with his family on August 13. General Ziaur Rahman became the strongman, but he had to contend with coups and countercoups, further muddling the situation. He was finally assassinated in 1981. However, the democracy that was re-established in 1981 was still unstable, and another general, Hussain Mohammed Ershad, took power in a bloodless coup in 1982. He stabilized the country's politics, though corruption was still endemic.
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