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[[File:Modern india.png|thumb|A map of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.]]<br />
The '''Bangladesh Liberation War'''{{efn|''Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh'' calls it the '''Bangladesh Liberation War'''.<ref>{{cite book| last = Gupta| first = Om| title = Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sg9XW7MmVoIC&pg=PA25| year = 2006| publisher = Gyan Publishing House| isbn = 978-81-8205-389-2| page = 25}}</ref> The war is known in Bangla as ''Muktijuddho'' or ''Shawdhinota Juddho''.<ref>{{cite book| last = Rahman| first = Syedur| title = Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bJfcCPUr0OoC&pg=PA289| year = 2010| publisher = Scarecrow Press| isbn = 978-0-8108-7453-4| page = 289}}</ref><br />
The war is also called the Civil War in Pakistan<ref name="Social 2005 p93"><br />
{{cite book| last = Moss| first = Peter| title = Secondary Social Studies For Pakistan| url = https://www.worldcat.org/title/secondary-social-studies-for-pakistan/oclc/651126824| access-date = 10 June 2013| year = 2005| publisher = Oxford University Press| location = Karachi| isbn = 978-0-19-597704-2| page = 93 | oclc = 651126824}}</ref><br />
}} ({{lang-bn|মুক্তিযুদ্ধ}} ''Muktijuddho'') was a [[revolution|revolutionary]] [[war]] for the [[independence]] of [[Bangladesh]] in 1971.<ref>[http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/17.htm Library of Congress]</ref> The war was between [[Bangladesh#History|East Pakistan]] (later with the help of [[India]]) and [[West Pakistan]] and lasted nine months.<br />
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There were [[1971 Bangladesh atrocities|large-scale atrocities]] in the war. Ten million [[refugee]]s left the country,and 30 million people left their homes.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Totten| first1 = Samuel| last2 = Bartrop| first2 = Paul Robert| title = Dictionary of Genocide| year = 2007| publisher = Greenwood| isbn = 978-0-313-32967-8| page = 34 }}</ref><br />
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[[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]]'s party won the Pakistan elections of 1970 and the military junta that ruled the country decided he must not be Prime Minister. The resulting war started on 26 March 1971 and finished on 16 December. A [[Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale|category 3]] [[Bhola cyclone|cyclone]] also happened during the war.<br />
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[[Ghulam Azam]] and [[Motiur Rahman Nizami]] were convicted for war crimes. Azam died before a final hearing. Nizami was [[execution|executed]] for his crimes in May 2016.<br />
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