Mukti Bahini definition

Mukti Bahini literally means ‘Liberation Fighter’ while ‘Mukti Juddhas’ means ‘Liberation Warrior’ (‘Mukhti Juddha’ means ‘Liberation War’). Both terms reference the same group.
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Examples of Mukti Bahini in a sentence

  • They, along with a large number of Awami League activists and East Bengali Hindus, went across to India and with Indian assistance formed the Mukti Bahini (emancipation army).

  • These parties functioned as the intelligence network of the Pakistan army, 185 especially after the Mukti Bahini launched its guerrilla war against Pakistani forces.

  • They allegedly acted as the Pakistan army’s death squads and “exterminate[ed] leading left wing professors, journalists, littérateurs, and even doctors.”195 Al-Badr reportedly killed “10 professors of Dacca University, five leading journalists (including the BBC correspondent), two littérateurs and 26 doctors in Dacca alone.”196 Numerous supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba lost their lives during clashes with Mukti Bahini.

  • During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, India provided extensive aid, training and shelter for the exiled government of Bangladesh and the Bengali nationalist Mukti Bahini guerrilla force that was fighting the Pakistani Army.

  • The anger of the Bengali people and the lack of justice received from the parties to genocide allowed many Urdu speaking communities situated in Bangladesh like the Biharis to be attacked, killed, and raped by Bengali mobs and individuals linked to the Mukti Bahini.