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Operation Searchlight
Operation Searchlight was a planned pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in erstwhile East Pakistan in 1971.Sarmila Bose Anatomy of Violence: Analysis of Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971: Military Action: Operation Searchlight Economic and Political Weekly Special Articles, October 8, 2005 Ordered by the government in West Pakistan, this was seen as the sequel to Operation Blitz that was launched in November 1970.
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