The independence war came to an end after India sent in troops on behalf of the Bengalis.
The grave of Mr Godwin's elder sister, shot dead in the independence war, becomes a slum-dwellers' toilet.
In 1973, the government cancelled his citizenship for allegedly co-operating with Pakistani forces during the independence war.
The clashes come amid renewed tension over a tribunal judging war crimes committed during the 1971 independence war.
They had waited more than four decades for justice in the mass killings and rapes during their independence war.
The plan's Jewish state would have been much smaller than the Israel that emerged from the 1948-49 Independence War.
The Jamaat-e-Islami wants the trial of its leaders for crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 independence war to be stopped.
BBC: Dhaka police and protesters clash over war crime trials
Jamaat campaigned against Bangladesh's independence war and has been accused of forming several groups to help Pakistani troops in killing, rape and arson.
The party's supporters are outraged that some of their leaders have been put on trial for crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 independence war.
BBC: Bangladesh strike over war crimes trials sparks clashes
However, it is reported that he did not actually fight in the independence war, but spent the years qualifying as a Polish-trained medical practitioner.
During the independence war of 1971, though, the club suffered badly.
Bangladesh government figures estimate more than three million people were killed during the independence war, although some researchers put the figure at between 300, 000 and 500, 000.
Bangladeshi police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse Islamist activists protesting at the trial of their leaders for war crimes allegedly committed during the independence war.
BBC: Dhaka police and protesters clash over war crime trials
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) A Bangladeshi tribunal sentenced a leader of the country's main Islamic party to life in jail Tuesday for his role during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
Mr Rahman has been accused by the governing Awami League of using his newspaper to encourage political demonstrations against a war crimes tribunal set up by the government to examine abuses allegedly committed by people who supported Pakistan during Bangladesh's independence war of 1971.
Puntland -- which declared its independence from war-wracked Somalia a decade ago but is not internationally recognized -- wants the international community to do more to combat the problem, Aware said.
But the founders, and more specifically the framers of the Constitution, included men who had fought a war for independence -- the very war celebrated on the "Glorious Fourth" -- against a country in which church and state were essentially one.
Generally deemed wretched after a 14-year war for independence from Portugal followed by 27 years of civil war that only ended in 2002, Angola is now one of Africa's economic successes thanks almost entirely to oil.
If you add the Palestinian revolt of 1936-39 and the war between Palestinian villagers and Jewish settlers (1947-48) to Israel's War of Independence (1948-49), the Suez War (1956), the Six Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur-Ramadan War (1973), the Lebanon War (1982) and the Palestinian intifadah (1987-93, approximately), the world has seen one major Arab-Israeli war roughly every eight years.
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While prosecutors say he killed dozens of Serb civilians during Croatia's 1991 war of independence, Norac's supporters regard him as a war hero.
Zeevi was a retired army general who fought in Israel's 1948 war of independence, the 1956 Sinai campaign, and the 1967 Mideast war.
In the post-war independence stirrings in Africa, Dr Banda played an ambivalent role.
The Scottish government has given the BBC a list of the 30 countries which it says have decided on independence since World War II - along with the year they took UN membership.
Their legitimacy rested on their role in the savage eight-year war of independence against the French (largely mythologised, since many spent that war outside the country) which made them the guarantors of the state's principles.
The rebellion is now regarded by many Indians as the first war of independence.
Even in America's war of independence, the revolutionaries printed money to finance their campaign.
During the American war of independence, Martha's Vineyard was on the side of the revolution.
She worked as a clerk in the Israeli Air Force during the war of independence.
England went through revolutionary traumas over a century before the American war of independence.
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VUKOVAR, Croatia (AP) Edin Kapidzic fought in Croatia's brutal war for independence and came out alive.
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