I le amataga o le 1970s, na amata ai e le vaegaau a Pakisitana se osofaʻiga a le vaegaau e tali atu ai i le tutoatasi o Bangladesh
. E toetoe lava 10 miliona tagata sulufaʻi na sosola atu i Initia. R&amp;AW sa fesoasoani i le fausiaina o le faʻalapotopotoga guerilla Bangladesh Mukti Bahini ma nafa ma le tuʻuina atu o faʻamatalaga, tuʻuina atu o toleniga ma mamafa pulufana i lenei faʻalapotopotoga. O loo tuuaʻia foʻi le R&amp;AW na fuafuaina ma faʻatinoina le 1971 Initia Airline hijacking o se fuʻa sese gaioiga e faʻasa ai le lele o vaalele a Pakisitana ma faʻalavelave ai le feoaʻi o fitafita Pakisitana i East Pakistan. O le Special Frontier Force, lea sa i lalo o le R&AW, sa auai malosi i gaoioiga a le militeli aemaise lava i Chittagong Hill Tracts. Ina ua māeʻa le taua i le manuia o le faavaeina o Bangladesh. Peitaʻi, i le fā tausaga mulimuli ane ai, na fasiotia ai Sheikh Mujibur Rahman i le aso 15 o Aokuso 1975 i lona fale. Na taʻua e sui o le R&amp;AW e faapea, sa iai a latou faamatalaga muamua e uiga i le fasiotiga o Mujib-ur-Rahman, ae na le amanaʻiaina e Sheikh Mujib ia faamatalaga. Na fasiotia o ia faatasi ai ma tagata e toʻa 40 o lona aiga. Mulimuli ane, na foʻia ma le manuia e le R&amp;AW fuafuaga e fasioti ai Sheikh Hasina Wazed, le afafine o Mujibur Rahman, e tagata faatupu faalavelave Islam.