Kader Siddiqi, an Indian Mukti Bahini guerrilla, bayonets men accused of collaboration with Pakistan during East Pakistan's struggle to become the independent state of Bangladesh. (Photo by William Lovelace/Getty Images)
22nd December 1971: A bridge blown up on the Jessore Road during the India-Pakistan conflict when India supported East Pakistan's struggle to become the independent state of Bangladesh. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images)
12th December 1971: Indian Mukti Bahini ('liberation force') troops on their way to the front line in East Pakistan during the state's struggle to become the independent state of Bangladesh. (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)
22nd December 1971: Indian Mukti Bahini ('liberation force') troops on their way to the front line in East Pakistan during the India-Pakistan conflict when India supported East Pakistan's struggle to become the independent state of Bangladesh. (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)
View of the aftermath of a massive cyclone and accompanying tidal wave (on November 12) shows villagers as they search for rice and other grains to salvage, near Sonapur, East Pakistan (later Bangladesh), late 1970. The official death toll for the disaster was more than 500,000 casualties. (Photo by Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Dacca, East Pakistan, 19th December 1971, Indian troops in a heavily-camouflaged lorry arrive at Dacca in East Pakistan during the India-Pakistan War (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
India Pakistan Civil War, 22nd June 1971, A refugee carries his baby at his side and his worldly possessions on his head as he approaches West Bengal on the Indian border after fleeing from fighting in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Garden George Harrison (c.) flanked by pipe smoking Allen Klein (l.) and Ravi Shankar, speaks to reporters about benefit show for East Pakistan refugee children. (Photo By: Leonard Detrick/NY Daily News via Getty Images)
(Original Caption) Dacca: Captured Pakistani soldiers sit behind a barbed wire fence at a prison camp here. The government of Pakistani Pres. Yahya Khan is expected to resign Dec. 20 and turn over power to Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who is enroute to Rawalpindi. 12/20/1971
(Original Caption) West Bengal State. India: Heavy rains and flooding are aggravating the malnutrition, overcrowding, poor sanitation and fouled water in the camps here housing tens of thousands of East Pakistani refugees. Here a Bengali mother carries her infant across muddy flood waters from a makeshift field hospital (right, background). Note child in left background pumping drinking water. Indian government reports that large numbers of East Pakistani refugee children are dying every day from malnutrition and the diseases that accompany it, and additional tens of thousands are seriously malnourished and facing death. They report that in the critical ages 1 to 8 hundreds are dying in the camps daily. About 30,000 new refugees cross into India from East Pakistan every day.
(Original Caption) Shamshernagar, E. Pakistan: Border Village Destroyed. Trio of children, victims of fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces earlier this month, arrive at refugee camp here Nov. 18th, after escaping form their border village which was destroyed near her border with Pakistan following a shooting incident in the skies along the E. Pakistan frontier and what was characterized as an increase in border incidents by a government spokesman.
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Woman and child at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. They have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence.(Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )A refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. They have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Child at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. The refugees have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )A refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. They have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Woman at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. The refugees have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Woman and children at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. They have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Woman and child at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. They have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Woman at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. The refugees have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Men working at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. They have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Child at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. The refugees have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )A refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. They have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Woman at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. The refugees have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Blind man at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengaland India's largest city. The refugees have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
INDIA - 1971: (NO U.S. TABLOID SALES )Woman and child at a refugee camp filled with East Pakistani refugees 1971 on the outskirts of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal and India's largest city. They have been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in the course of the Bangladesh War of Independence. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
View of Pakistan Army troops laying down their arms on the ground as Indian Army soldiers bend down to pick them up during a disarming ceremony in Dacca (Dhaka), East Pakistan on 20th December 1971. Pakistan Army troops are surrendering to Indian Army forces after the fall of Dacca at the end of the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Pakistan Army general Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi (1915-2004) pictured holding a cup of tea as he visits front line troops in the vicinity of Hilli, East Pakistan on 27th November 1971. Pakistan Army troops are currently fighting Bangladesh and Indian Army forces at the Battle of Hilli in the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
View of Bangladesh liberation troops with light automatic weapons marching along a road at Satkhira, near the Indian border, where fighting involving guerillas and Indian troops against Pakistan government forces has been taking place over the last few days in East Pakistan, November 1971. Pakistan Army troops are currently fighting Bangladesh and Indian Army forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
View of Indian army troops and local civilians looking at the bound body of a man found shot on a railway line near the East Pakistan town of Jessore in December 1971. The body is believed to be that of a Bangladeshi guerilla, executed by retreating Pakistan government forces during fighting in the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Indian general Jagjit Singh Aurora (1916-2005) pictured on left pointing to the surrender documents as he instructs Pakistan Army general Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi (1915-2004) where to sign in a surrender meeting at Ramna racecourse in Dhaka, East Pakistan on 16th December 1971. The signing of the surrender documents would mark the end of fighting in the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
View of Indian army troops advancing in a truck towards the East Pakistan town of Jessore on 9th December 1971. The Indian Army and Bangladeshi guerrillas are pursuing retreating Pakistan government forces during fighting in the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Refugees are shown here arriving along the Jessore-Calcutta road waiting to cross to checkpost at Benapole. As the Pakistani army troops started pounding some of the areas like Jhikargacha in Jessore district of Bangladesh (East Pakistan) to regain control of places earlier 'liberated' by freedom fighters, a steady stream of refugees arriving in groups and wounded persons with bullet injuries started crossing the Indian border in West Bengal. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
Former Beatle George Harrison (1943-2001) pictured on left with Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) at a press conference to promote their upcoming benefit show to aid of plight of East Pakistan refugees at Madison Square Garden, New York, 27th July 1971. The Concert for Bangladesh would be held at Madison Square Garden on 1st August 1971. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
View of local residents of Dacca (Dhaka) in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) holding a demonstration march on the streets to protest against 'Indian aggression' and to express their determination to resist the advancing liberation forces in December 1971. Pakistan Army troops are currently fighting Bangladesh and Indian Army forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
View of Mukti Bahini liberation army troops undergoing rifle training on a rifle range in a area of East Pakistan (now liberated Bangladesh) in November 1971. Pakistan Army troops are currently fighting Bangladesh and Indian Army forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
View of a group of Pakistan Army officers standing after laying down their arms at a disarmament ceremony in Dhaka (Dacca), East Pakistan on 19th December 1971. Pakistan Armed forces signed an instrument of surrender document on 16th December to end the fighting with Bangladeshi guerillas and Indian troops in the final days of the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Supervised by armed Indian troops, defeated Pakistan Army soldiers board a boat in Dhaka (Dacca), East Pakistan for the first stage of their repatriation back to West Pakistan from Bangladesh on 3rd January 1972. Pakistan Armed forces signed an instrument of surrender document on 16th December to end the fighting with Bangladeshi guerillas and Indian troops in the final days of the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Supervised by armed Indian troops, defeated Pakistan Army soldiers prepare to board a train in Dhaka (Dacca), East Pakistan for the first stage of their repatriation back to West Pakistan from Bangladesh on 3rd January 1972. Pakistan Armed forces signed an instrument of surrender document on 16th December after their defeat to Bangladeshi guerillas and Indian troops in the final days of the Bangladesh Liberation War. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
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