[1] Two days later, Operation Searchlight was launched in East Pakistan under Yahya Khan's order, leading to the start of the Bangladesh genocide.

[2] During the war, the newly formed provisional government established an Art and Design Division in Calcutta, India (the capital-in-exile), appointing Quamrul Hassan as its director.

[3] Since Yahya Khan was the mastermind behind Operation Searchlight, Hassan chose to portray him, instead of the Pakistani president, as a beast, making the image a symbol of Pakistan's oppressive regime.

[6] In 2022, on the occasion of Quamrul Hassan's birth centenary, it was part of a special exhibition at the Nalinikanta Bhattasali Gallery of the Bangladesh National Museum.

[1] To Bangladeshi people that grew up around the early 2000s and later, the caricature of Yahya Khan from the poster is considered a symbol of the brutality of the Pakistan Army during the war.

Art critic Moinuddin Khaled described the poster as a political document and compared the artwork to Pablo Picasso's 1937 piece The Dream and Lie of Franco.

[3] According to artist Qayyum Chowdhury, the monstrous figure of Khan depicted in the poster will remain eternally memorable to Bengalis, akin to the plundering cavalry of the Bargis, the Maratha raiders.

')[9] Cartoonist Simu Naser stated that the satirical depiction of Yahya Khan in the poster has become an iconic image in the history of political cartoons in Bangladesh.

"[11] According to artist Monsur Ul Karim, the portrait of Khan depicted in the poster made the Pakistani army's characters transparent.