Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Kisan kare dangi a Bangladesh ya fara ne a ranar 26 ga Maris, 1971 tare da kaddamar da Operation Searchlight, yayin da Pakistan ta Yamma (yanzu Pakistan) ta fara aikin soja a kan reshen Gabas (yanzu Bangladesh) na al'ummar. An yi wannan aikin ne saboda dalilai na addini da siyasa. A cikin watanni tara na tsawon lokaci
Bangladesh War for Liberation, membobin sojojin Pakistan da kuma tallafawa 'yan bindigar Islama na Pakistan daga jam'iyyar Jamaat-e-Islami sun kashe mutane tsakanin 200,000 da 3,000,000 kuma sun yi fyade tsakanin mata 200,000 da 400,000 na Bengali, a cewar majiyoyin Bangladesh da Indiya, a cikin wani tsari na fyade na kisan kare dangi. Shugabannin addinai na Pakistan sun goyi bayan ayyukan da aka yi wa mata, wadanda suka ayyana cewa matan Bengali "gonimoter maal" (Bengali don "dukiyar jama'a"). Sakamakon rikicin, wasu mutane miliyan takwas zuwa goma, galibi 'yan Hindu, sun tsere daga kasar don neman mafaka a makwabciyar Indiya. An kiyasta cewa kimanin fararen hula miliyan 30 ne suka tsere daga cikin miliyan 70. A lokacin yakin, akwai kuma tashin hankali na kabilanci tsakanin 'yan Bengal da' yan Bihar da ke magana da Urdu. Biharis sun fuskanci ramuwar gayya daga 'yan bindigar Bengal da' yan bindiga kuma an kashe daga 1,000 zuwa 150,000.