In 1971, the people of Bangladesh united to fight the occupying Pakistani forces and their local collaborators.

After nine sanguinary months of conflict and war, the Pakistan Armed Forces surrendered at the Racecourse Ground (now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka. The guerrilla warfare by Mukti Bahini was instrumental ...

It was a policy that saw the new state abandon the rule … There were two phases to the Civil War. The first is known as the Conventional phase - and it was more dramatic than its name suggests ...