Liberation War Museum
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The Liberation War Museum is a museum at Agargaon in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, which commemorates the Bangladesh Liberation War that led to the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan.
Liberation War Museum in 2024
Liberation War Museum before the relocation at the permanent building
The Jallad Khana memorial at one of the killing fields in Mirpur is maintained by the museum.
Exhibition from the old premises of the LWM containing human remains and war materials.
Operation Searchlight
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Operation Searchlight was a military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971. Pakistan retroactively just
Liberation War Museum
…Awami League to resist Pakistani forces. Several galleries focus on the genocide carried out by the Pakistani army against the Bengali population, with Operation Searchlight targeting Bengali intellectuals, students, Hindus and Awami League leaders, and the humanitarian crisis created with the pouring of an estimated ten…
Depiction of Operation Searchlight at the Liberation War Museum
Grave of the 1971 martyrs, in front of Jagannath Hall, Dhaka University.
Memorial in front of university staff quarters apartment building at 34, Secretariat Road, Dhaka