January-1968 – Bangladesh Genocide Archive https://www.genocidebangladesh.org An online archive of chronology of events, documentations, audio, video, images, media reports and eyewitness accounts of the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh in the hands of Pakistan army. Mon, 29 Jan 1968 20:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 95479874 The Agartala Conspiracy Case https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/the-agartala-conspiracy-case/ Mon, 29 Jan 1968 20:08:46 +0000 https://www.genocidebangladesh.org/?p=89 January, 1968

The Agartala Conspiracy Case is made public. It involves Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and thirty-five other Bengalis who allegedly wanted to separate East Pakistan and establish an independent Bengal, with Indian assistance.

The Agartala Conspiracy Case consolidates the East Pakistani sentiments against discrimination in all fronts, including positions in the Government and the Armed Forces especially coveted by the middle class.

“…it evoked a totally unexpected Bengali reaction. While the prosecution wanted to dub Mujib a traitor, Bengalees made a hero out of him. The trial conferred such [a] popularity on Mujib that would otherwise have taken him a lifetime to acquire.” — Siddiq Salik, the PRO and an apologist for the Pakistani genocidal regime, in his book A Witness to Surrender

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