BUTCHER OF BANGLADESH

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General Tikka Khan, former chief of the and once known as the 'Butcher of Bangladesh' for carrying out a vicious in Dhaka in 1971 to quell the Bangladeshi movement.

Gen. Khan was appointed chief administrator of East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, by the Pakistan's , Gen Yahya Khan, who had ordered a crackdown on the liberation movement led by Sheikh .

Gen Khan's forces carried out a assault on Dacca and the Mukti on the night of March 25, 1971, killing hundreds of .

The military carried out similar attacks in other parts of East Pakistan, killing more.

After East Pakistan and Bangladesh was in 1971, then prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto promoted , albeit extremely strangely, to the rank of General and made him on March 3, 1972, replacing Gen Gul Hasan.

Two years after his retirement in 1974, he joined the Pakistan People's Party and became special assistant on to Bhutto.

During her first tenure as prime minister, Bhutto appointed him the of Punjab.

One only wonders whether it was a for ceding East Pakinstan to become .