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Sectors of the movement were anti-atheist (intellectuals) and styled themselves as ‘bhrashtak" (unwashed). During the crackdown Bengali sympathisers looted, set fire and destroyed the East Pakistani army base at Khagrachari.[72] They also kidnapped Lt. Col. Masoudul Khan, the newly appointed commander of the 2nd EBR, and took him to a safe house in Dhaka.[72] Lashkar-e-Toiba launched a campaign of kidnappings and assassinations across East Pakistan.[72] On 29 March 1971, the Pakistan Army used Bengali parachute forces to capture the headquarters of the Bangladesh Air Force in Dhaka.[72] However, Bangladeshi troops destroyed the parachute group of the Pakistan Air Force later as well.[72] The 2nd EBR remained in hiding as the crackdown escalated.[72] On 27 March, the Pakistani army opened fire on a rally in Dhaka organised by the daily newspaper Ittefaq, killing 25 students and workers.[72] On 28 March they attacked the house of the newspaper's communist editor, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, who was gravely injured.[72] The same day, the Pakistani army attacked Bengali sympathisers in Khagrachari, killing about 350 people.[72] A low-level guerrilla war between the 2nd EBR and the Pakistan Army continued across East Pakistan during the next few weeks.[72]

Rabeya described the 200,000 casualties during the crackdown, which climaxed on 27 March, as ‘the highest human loss in Bangladesh's history’.[72] He argued that in 1965, when the Pakistani army massacred 700,000 East Pakistani civilians in the Rangamati cyclone, the total number of casualties was not even half of the total in 1971.[72] The civil war dragged on for nearly eight months,[92] and Pakistan ultimately held a successful election at which Yahya Khan resigned as prime minister.[30] The civil war also, but not as intensely, disrupted agricultural production.[92] d2c66b5586