What conflict was initiated by Operation Searchlight?
Third India–Pakistan War
Bangladesh Liberation War
Second India-Pakistan War
First India-Pakistan War
Answer
Operation Searchlight was a large military operation conducted by the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, in March 1971. It was designed to pre-empt and suppress an anticipated independence movement in East Pakistan and to intimidate the population into submission. The operation was a brutal campaign of violence and repression in which tens of thousands of people were killed and millions displaced.
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