The birth of Bangladesh
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The Intervention of India Was Decisive
The sky over taka was absolutely filled with red flar. The pakiston air force also put up some resistance, but they could not hold out for much longer. On the sixteenth of december, it became very clear, because there were people out in the street shouting slogans of bingoli nationalist logans. And then we went out into the street. I think by three o'clock we saw the first indian soldiers rolling into the town. We shook their hands, because everyone felt that the indians were liberators.
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