Complete the sentence about Operation Searchlight with the correct year: The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major Bengali-held town to West Pakistan in mid-May ______.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. 1971
Operation Searchlight was the Pakistan Army campaign against the Bengali nationalist movement in East Pakistan. Its main phase wound down in mid-May 1971, once the last major Bengali-held town had fallen to West Pakistan. The operation began in March 1971 and went on to set off the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.
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