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According to one estimate, at least 250,000 Biharis are still in Bangladesh urban refugee camps. [57] The camps have become slums, the largest of which (known as "Geneva Camp", with over 25,000 people) is crowded and undeveloped; families up to 10 people typically live in a single room, one latrine is shared by 90 families and no more than five ...
Santahar was a railway town in Bogra District, a home to about 15,000 non-Bengalis in 1971 who lived in various neighbourhoods and areas of the town. [4]Eyewitness accounts state that on March 26, 1971, clashes emerged between Bengalis and Urdu-speaking inhabitants of the area.
When the war finished Biharis faced severe retaliation, resulting in a counter-genocide and the displacement of over a million non-Bengalis. [69] According to the Minorities at Risk project, the number of Biharis killed by Bengalis was reportedly about 1,000. [157] Rudolph Rummel gives an estimate of 150,000 killed. [159]
Location Deaths Notes 1971 Bangladesh genocide: starting 25 March 1971 – 16 December 1971 Various places in Bangladesh 200,000–3,000,000 1971 Dhaka University massacre: 25 March 1971 University of Dhaka: 310+ 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals: 25 March-14 December 1971 1,111 [1] Shankharipara massacre: 26 March 1971 Shankaripara, Dhaka ...
Bihari Muslims are adherents of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Biharis.They are geographically native to the region comprising the Bihar state of India, although there are significantly large communities of Bihari Muslims living elsewhere in the subcontinent due to the Partition of British India in 1947, which prompted the community to migrate en masse ...
The war changed the geopolitical landscape of South Asia, with the emergence of Bangladesh as the world's seventh-most populous country. Due to complex regional alliances, the war was a major episode in Cold War tensions involving the United States, the Soviet Union and China.
Bihar is one of the longest inhabited places in the world with a history going back to the Neolithic age. [8] Since that time, Biharis have long been involved in some of the most important events in South Asian history. Biharis were the founders of many great empires based out of Magadh including the Nanda Empire, Maurya Empire and the Gupta ...
Operation Searchlight was a military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971. [8] [9] Pakistan retrospectively justified the operation on the basis of anti-Bihari violence carried out en masse by the Bengalis earlier that month.