The documentary traces how the Pakistani Armed Forces, under the command of the then-President General Yahya Khan, initiated Operation Searchlight in March 1971, a campaign of torture killings and rape to erase Bengali resistance.
The 95-minute documentary features an array of prominent testimonies, including those of army defectors, former peasants turned freedom fighters, survivors of genocide, eyewitnesses to Operation Searchlight, rape survivors, political figures from the time, the first Bengali cricket player on the Pakistan Cricket Team in 1971, family members of Genocide victims, and students
From Black Lives Matter to Kill the Bill, these images show “what happens when a heavily equipped, well resourced police presence decides to exert force on a crowd”.