Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Pakistani Bengal yakapfuura nenguva yekudzvinyirira, sezvo 1958 Pakistani coup d'état yakatanga hutongi hwechiuto hwaAyub Khan, hwakadzvinyirira kuruboshwe rweBengali uye kufamba kwedemokrasi. Muzvinafundo Sheikh Mujibur Rahman akabuda somutungamiri wevanopikisa ndokutanga sangano reSix point nokuda kworusununguko rukuru muEast Pakistan. Muna 1969, kumukira kwevanhu vakawanda muEast Pakistan kwakatungamirira kukudzingwa kwaAyub Khan uye kukunda musarudzo kwaRahman. Asi mutungamiriri mutsva wemauto Yahya Khan akaramba kubvuma migumisiro yacho ndokusimudzira mutemo wehondo paEast Pakistan. Sorutivi rweOperation Searchlight, mauto ePakistan akavamba kuita
kuparadza rudzi kwevanhu vechiBengali, kuuraya mazana ezviuru. Izvi zvakakonzera kuziviswa kweRusununguko rweBangladesh uye kutanga kweHondo yeRusununguko yeBangladesh, iyo yakaguma nekuregererwa kwemauto ePakistani uye rusununguko rwePeople's Republic yeBangladesh.