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What was the significance of the Bangladesh liberation movement in the 1971 India-Pakistan War?

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The Bangladesh liberation movement was a political and armed struggle by the people of East Pakistan to gain independence from West Pakistan. When East Pakistanis protested the central government’s political and cultural repression, the Pakistani military launched a brutal crackdown that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. This led to a full-scale war for independence by East Pakistani rebels against the Pakistani military. The resulting humanitarian crisis was one of the reasons India chose to intervene militarily.

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