Bangladeshi Operation Nemesis?

Operation Nemesis was a plan concocted by Armenian Nationalists to kill the main people responsible for the Armenian Genocide in the 1920s. People like Djemal Pasha and Talaat Pasha, two out of three of the "Three Pashas" were killed, for example, along with one of the presidents of Azerbaijan.

When Bangladesh gained their independence the main people responsible for the Bengali genocide such as Tikka Khan, Yahya Khan, A. A. K. Niazi, A. Q. Molla and Ghulam Azam were not tried for the crimes immediately following independence if at all.

Could a Bangladeshi version of "Operation Nemeisis", where Bangladeshi Nationalists try to kill people like Yahya Khan, Ghulam Azam etc. be carried out? And if so, what would be the reaction in Pakistan to seeing people like Yahya Khan be killed? Sure, Yahya Khan was universally despised by Pakistanis and was stripped of his honors following 1971 but they would be shock at one of their former presidents being killed. I've seen a lot of Bangladeshis online hate Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto for refusing to let Sheikh Mujib become Prime Minister of Pakistan, so could he had been a target for assassination, and if Bhutto is killed what would be the reaction then?
 
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Bangladesh had enough issues post-independence that this would be difficult. You could quite easily get Bengali collaborators killed, but the much greater issue of the day was after rebuilding after so many disasters in quick succession to one another, and then to keep everything from going to hell after Mujib was assassinated. Such people would be far more interested in recovery and fighting the communist rebellion than assassinating politicians all the way in far-off Pakistan.
 
Bangladesh had enough issues post-independence that this would be difficult. You could quite easily get Bengali collaborators killed, but the much greater issue of the day was after rebuilding after so many disasters in quick succession to one another, and then to keep everything from going to hell after Mujib was assassinated. Such people would be far more interested in recovery and fighting the communist rebellion than assassinating politicians all the way in far-off Pakistan.

Someone could assassinate Bhutto when he visited Bangladesh in 1974.


In the video you see people protesting Bhutto's visit, starts at 1:17.
 
Someone could assassinate Bhutto when he visited Bangladesh in 1974.


In the video you see people protesting Bhutto's visit, starts at 1:17.

Bhutto doesn’t inspire the same visceral hatred that Yahya does, since Bhutto wasn’t the one responsible for the murderous campaign by the armies of Pakistan. He was simply part of the problem. Protesting him is one thing; assassinating him is another. And as that protest clip shows, there were plenty of police officers holding the line, and the protestors were too far from firing range except by a large gun, and none of those protestors wanted him dead, as can be seen by how they yelled “Go back Bhutto” and the generic patriotic slogan of “Bangladesh Zindabad”. And I think Bhutto was sufficiently smart that he wouldn’t make irredentist statements in Bangladesh.
 
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