• Dr. Nasir Ahmad

Operation Searchlight was a brutal, planned military operation carried out by the Pakistan army on the unaware, sleeping Bengalis of East Bengal at midnight on 25 March 1971. The operation was deployed simultaneously throughout the province, but one of their main targeted places was the University of Dhaka campus. During Operation Searchlight, the Pakistan Army killed around 300 persons inside the university campus. Bengali people evaluated the operation as war and began their nine-month-long liberation war. The purpose of the article is to explore why and how the military government led Operation Searchlight during the negotiation talk with the Awami League. How did the Pakistan Army lead a genocide inside the DU campus, and what was their purpose behind the genocide? Primary and secondary sources have been used to write the article. Descriptive and analytical methods under qualitative approaches have been followed as well.

Operation Searchlight, Genocide, Non-cooperation movement, Operation Blitz, Nationalism, Hub.

"Operation Searchlight and the University of Dhaka: Beginning of the Liberation War of Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 11, page no.d51-d66, November-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2411309.pdf

"Operation Searchlight and the University of Dhaka: Beginning of the Liberation War of Bangladesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 11, page no. ppd51-d66, November-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2411309.pdf