Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Vanhu veBengali vakatsamwa apo mutungamiri akasarudzwa Sheikh Mujibur Rahman akarambidzwa kutora hofisi. Kusateerera kwevanhu kwakapararira muEast Pakistan yose, kuchidaidzira kuzvimirira. Mujib akataura pamusangano waida kuzvimiririra wevanhu vangangosvika mamirioni maviri muDhaka (sezvaishandiswa kunyorwa Dhaka muChirungu) musi wa7 Kurume 1971, apo paakati, "Nguva ino kurwira kwedu rusununguko. Nguva ino kurwira kwedu kuzvitonga". Mureza weBangladesh wakasimudzwa kekutanga musi wa 23 Kurume, Zuva reRepublic rePakistan. Gare gare, musi wa25 Kurume manheru, mauto ePakistan aitungamirirwa naYahya Khan akatanga kurwisa kwehondo kuEast Pakistan pasi pezita rekuti Operation Searchlight. Mauto ePakistan akasunga Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ndokumuendesa kuKarachi. Zvisinei, asati asungwa Mujib akazivisa rusununguko rweBangladesh pakati pehusiku musi wa 26 Kurume izvo zvakaita kuti Hondo yeRusununguko yeBangladesh itange mukati memaawa. Mauto ePakistan akaramba achiuraya vadzidzi vechiBengali, vakadzidza, vezvematongerwo enyika, vashandi vehurumende uye vanyengeri vemauto muna 1971 kuuraya vanhu muBangladesh
, apo Mukti Bahini nemamwe mauto emagandanga eBengali vakagadzira kuramba kwakasimba munyika yose. Mukati mehondo, vanhu vanofungidzirwa kuva mamirioni 0,3 kusvika ku3 vakaurawa uye mamirioni anoverengeka akawana utiziro muIndia yakavakidzana. Murangariro wavose wapasi pose wakatendeukira kurwisana nePakistan sezvo nhau dzamasimba masimba dzakapararira; sangano reBangladesh rakatsigirwa nevanhu vakakurumbira vezvematongerwe enyika netsika muMadokero, kubatanidza Ted Kennedy, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Victoria Ocampo naAndré Malraux. The Concert for Bangladesh yakaitirwa paMadison Square Garden muNew York City kuunganidza mari yevapoteri veBangladeshi. Mutambo wokutanga mukuru wokubatsira munhau, wakarongwa naHarrison uye muIndia weBengali sitarist Ravi Shankar.