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As far as I know, the Operation Searchlight was the crackdown initiated on March 25, 1971. It did not cover the whole war. For references, see Major Siddiq Salique's book "Witness to surrender". --Ragib 15:42, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
The main article on Bangladesh states: 'Rough estimates of those massacred range from several hundred thousand to 3 million', whereas only the figure 3 million is given here. I am not personally familiar with attempts to arrive at a definitive figure, so I'll leave it unchanged, but if someone with better knowledge could attend to it, that would be much appreciated. --Benwilson528 13:35, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Excuse me "most experts agree on a figure of 1 to 1.5 million" this is nonsense and most clearly a figure plucked out of the air. Please do not make emotive baseless statements and provide sources to back up such statements. Also in order to be more balanced the overall article needs to clearly mention how the mukhti bahini rebel fashion were ethnically cleansing loyal pakistanis in the east pakistan, and also the incidents were west pakistani military men had their wives raped bybengali east pakistani military officers and the said unfortunate women were forced to serve food to the bengali offices naked. This had been one of the incidents of mutiny which had appalled Tikka Khan into action. Also more needs to be made of the clear links between mujib and the indians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.202.218.32 (talk) 21:24, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Sources and accounts investigated by Gerlach suggest a likely death toll of between 200,000 to less than one million. [1] Gerlach also notes the highly politicized nature of the Bengali and Pakistani accounts of events and the corresponding numbers. Rummel's overall death counts as well as his use of sources has been disputed (see Harff's comments on his work), though not specifically in relation to Bangladesh. His whopping numbers in relation to the USSR are inflated and in any case not up to date, since the opening of USSR archives (see Snyder, Kotkin, Applebaum and many others, on the numbers of the Gulag and the famine/collectivisation and the Great Terror). Similar things apply to the numbers he uses with regard to Mao's China. Anyway, Harff (in "No Lessons Learned..", 2003) also gives numbers for "Pakistan" of 1,000,000 to 3,000,000. Easterly, Gatti, and Kurlat (2006) give 2,125,000. However, Ulfelder and Valentino (2008) give 650,000. In general, though, I find it wiser not to use numbers from compilation datasets (which all of the above are), whose purpose it is to study trends of mass killings rather than any specific case. It is preferable to use the numbers that arise from the specific studies of the specific killing campaign, which is the case with Gerlach who is also a newer source than any of the above datasets.
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To state that it was a Genocide in the first sentence is not a WP:NPOV.
This article does not cite its sources. Further as there have not been any trials (but see Raymond Faisal Solaiman v People's Republic of Bangladesh & Ors)it can only be an alleged genocide if a genocide at all. Please see the article Genocide, it is not at all clear that even if the top figure of three million were killed that it would qualify as a Genocide as the "in part" would not be reached. The only way that this could be considered a genocide is if those targeted were "emblematic of the overall group, or is essential to its survival", but that Bangladesh was created and has survived it would suggest that the group killed were not. --Philip Baird Shearer 14:19, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
See Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic - Appeals Chamber - Judgment - IT-98-33 (2004) ICTY 7 (19 April 2004) the massacre of Muslim men was defined as a genocide by an international tribunal. The tribunal did define the Srebrenica massacre as a genocidal act. Genocide has a specific set of criteria defining it and it is not at all clear that this operation can be defined as an itent to commit genocide (see for example Genocide#In part) the plan to kill 3 million -- which is an alledged number -- out of the total population of East Pakistan is not enough for it to be a planned genocide. I am aware of the Allegations of genocide in that article, because I spent several months working on the atrocities section of that article. Notice it says "allegations of gencide" not "genocide". --Philip Baird Shearer 20:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
This is not a blog page it is an encyclopedia article. The word has to carry precise meaning if the encyclopedia is to remain credible. Your argument would carry more weight if the word "genocide" was not linked to the article genocide which states "Genocide is a term defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as ...". Please read WP:NPOV because a first sentence in an article that stats "Operation Searchlight was a planned genocide carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in erstwhile East Pakistan in 1971." is in clear violation of that Wikipedia policy--Philip Baird Shearer 12:29, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
The Razakar, Al Badr groups were activated much after the launching of the operation (around June 1971), by which time Operation Searchlight ended. Their information should not be in the Operation Searchlight info box but in the Bangladesh Liberation War section.Maglorbd (talk) 02:55, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
This article was recent removed from Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 26 due to claims that this article is currently "heavily sourced to involved parties, not independent sources, and is unwikified in heaps of places"[2] As such, I have tagged this article with ((article issues)) for now until such issues on this article itself have been resolved. Please see Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/March 26#Removal of Bangladesh Liberation war entry by YellowMonkey for more details on the objections. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 00:40, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Mukti Bahini was created long before operation search light took place. 119.154.9.79 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:22, 21 March 2012 (UTC).
Darkness Shines, you know as well as I do that The British Medical Journal and The Guardian are WP:RS, and you have failed to even achieve consensus that Bose is fringe. Please stop your unjustified edit warring and mass deletions of content you disagree with.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 02:39, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
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What is meant by independent research? Does it mean commentary that contradicts well established historical facts? Then what is an non-independent research? Where did Hiro Dilip run his "research"?
The first ref provided was an empty ref. The second one could not be verified. Both invalid. If your book-cite cannot be verified by clicking on the link, please, provide a direct quote in the ref. Use "quote" parameter. The "fact" you provide is divergent from established facts, and needs to handled with more care than the sloppiness I had to remove. Aditya(talk • contribs) 15:34, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
your_username (talk · contribs) wants to offer a third opinion. To assist with the process, editors are requested to summarize the dispute in a short sentence below.
There are two different death tolls for Bangladesh Liberation War, one claimed by Bangladesh government, and another by BBC, who mentions "independent researchers" as their source. It is prudent, and meets WP:N and WP:V if we write something like - "Bangladesh government and majority of Bangladesh sources claim ... died. However, BBC claims, citing unnamed independent researchers, that it was ...". Thank you.
Aditya mentions on Talk:Operation Searchlight
I believe this is wrong here and we shouldn't write BBC claims here because BBC doesn't claim the figure 300,000 dead but Independent researchers do.
I believe we don't have to cite the research and check whether the claim is true because we don't do this for reliable sources.
@Adamgerber80: This is the original text from the new citation
The crackdown code-named 'Operation Searchlight' which sealed the fate of national unity was launched at midnight on 25 March. Yahya later justified it by citing the threats to non-Bengali Muslims, the murders committed by the Awami League and its insults to the army.
in Ian Talbot, India and Pakistan: Inventing the Nation (2000) Oxford University Press pp. 258
It is reasonably reflective of the sentence in the article which reads
which the Pakistani state justified on the basis of anti-Bihari violence by Bengalis in early March.
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Likewise,
the Pakistani state claimed to justify starting Operation Searchlight on the basis of anti-Bihari violence by Bengalis in early March.
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Perhaps you may like some modification to pull the existing sentence closer to the Talbot citation? TurboCop (talk) 12:21, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
In the infobox it says pakistan was supported by the usa, but where is the source for that? Control+F usa does not show any mention of the usa outside of the infobox. Sjobenrit (talk) 08:03, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
8 EBR units under Major Zia made a surprise attack on the barracks of the 20 Baluch regiment and killed 250 West Pakistani soldiers. This event would have been a major Bangladesh victory but it is not mentioned in sources from Bangladesh, including Bengali officers who had served with 8 EBR in Chittagong in March, (then) Captain S. Ali Bhuyan (Author Muktijuddhay Noi Mash.ISBN 984-11-0326-5), (then) Captain Oli Ahmed, (author of Rastrobiplob Samorik Bahinir Sadashsbindu Abong Bangladesher Muktizuddah), and (then) Major Mir Shawkat Ali or (then)Lt. Shamsher Mubin or then (Captain) Haroon, and by Major Rafiqu Islam ( author of A Tale of Millions ISBN 984-412-033-0) who could not get Major Zia to come to the city. Maj. Gen. K.M Safiullah ( Bangladesh at War, ISBN 984-401-322-4) also makes no no mention of any such incident.Maglorbd (talk) 04:48, 6 February 2024 (UTC)