Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin neman 'yancin Bangladesh, Mirpur ya kasance mai goyon bayan Pakistan. 'Yan Bengal da ke zaune a Mirpur sun yi barazana da kuma kai hari ga' yan Bihar da ke goyon bayan Pakistan. Mawakiyar Bengali, Meherunnesa, ta kashe ta da mazaunan Bihari na Mirpur tare da danginta. Bangladesh ta zama ƙasa mai zaman kanta a ranar 16 ga Disamba, 1971. Mirpur Thana, wanda galibi Biharis ke zaune, ya kasance a ƙarƙashin ikon sojojin da ke goyon bayan Pakistan ko da bayan samun 'yancin kai na Bangladesh. Yawancin mazauna sun kasance membobin sojojin sojan Pakistan kamar Razakars, Al-Badr, da Al-Shams. Sun mallaki makamai da harsasai, wanda sojojin Pakistan suka ba su. Bayan Yakin 'Yanci
Bayan da aka gama, sojojin sojojin Indiya ne ke tsare da unguwannin Bihari. A ranar 30 ga Janairu, 1972, an janye ma'aikatan Sojojin Indiya, saboda tsaron su na Biharis ya zama tushen tashin hankali tsakanin 'yan Bangladesh da Indiyawan.