Kushtia

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Liberation War resistance and battle site

Kushtia is used as a place timeline node for the 1971 Battle of Kushtia and early Liberation War resistance.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

Events in This Place

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1 event

1971 (March-April)

Battle of Kushtia

Early armed resistance follows Operation Searchlight.

The Battle of Kushtia was one of the early armed resistance episodes after Operation Searchlight. Local Bengali forces and civilians challenged Pakistani control before the war settled into longer sector-based fighting.