At the beginning of Operation Searchlight, on the night of 25 March 1971, a number of teachers of Dhaka University were killed.
When the news of Operation Searchlight reached him in the afternoon of 26 March, he revolted along with his fellow Bengali soldiers and raised the flag of Bangladesh at 4 Wing Quarter of Jessore Cantonment.
When the Pakistani occupation army spread out from Dhaka towards the districts as a part of the Operation Searchlight, the people began to flee their homes.
The crisis precipitated in March 1971 when rising political discontent and cultural nationalism in East Pakistan was met by Yahya Khan with what has come to be called Operation Searchlight.
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