Students preparing for war in 1970

soldier training camp, 1971

A Mukti Bahini fighter carries a comrade injured in the fight against the Pakistani army

As well as modern weapons, primitive weaponry was also used

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after a military strike

Soldiers smuggle grenades

refugee camp

400,000 birangona, meaning 'brave women', who were raped during the war

surrounded by spent rocket bombs

first prime ministe

independence from Pakistan, the people of Bangladesh began to reckon with the human cost of their new nation

As they took account of what they had won and what they had lost, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the independence movement leader who became the first prime minister of Bangladesh, urged his people to embrace the many thousands of women who had been raped by Pakistani soldiers