১৬ই ডিসেম্বর দুপুরে দশটা হেলিকপ্টার উড়ে যাচ্ছিল এক সঙ্গে। নিয়মতান্ত্রিক জৌলুসে, অহংকারে। গেরিলারা হঠাৎ বিহবল হয়ে পড়ল। তারপরই ফেটে পড়ল উল্লাসে। চারিদিক থেকে সবাই ঢুকে পড়ল শহরে, নিজের ইচ্ছায়, স্বাধীনতায়।
ঢাকায় গেরিলা অপারেশন-৬
প্রতিবেদন[১]: মোঃ জহিরুল হক
During the first week of July, 1971, our valiant Mukti Bahinis started their operations in different places of the country. The guerillas better known as Mukti Bahini started their operations even in and around Dacca city which was the mightiest stronghold of the occupation army.
The operations in the city were not carried out attaining supremacy over the enemy forces. Rather, these were performed to inform the world people that the guerillas had been gallantly fighting against a trained and strong forces of the world. The guerillas were divided in two different groups.
In the first week of September, 1971 some of the guerilla platoons were withdrawn from the city following the arrests of some commandos who were caught by the pakistani army during their operations. It was the command of their leader that nothing should be disclosed regarding the whereabouts and plans and programmes of the Mukti Bahini. The undaunted guerillas who were caught be the enemy forces embraced death with a smiling face but did not disclose anything about the guerilla operations.
Major Khaled Mosharraf transferred the platoon which was withdrawn from the city to Goran-Bahirda, an area in the vicnity of the Dacca city, where platoon carried out some successful operations on Rajakars. Since August 1971 the guerillas geared up their operations in and around the city which made the enemy forces at a loss what to do. They could not imagine how the guerillas came and hit them and ran away. The Crack platoon carried out some successful operations in the city. Their main job was to blow up the power stations and petrol pumps, to attack Police checkpoints and to cause explosions in important places. It was also one of the jobs of the Crack platoon to create platoon to create panic among the people of the city so that the normalcy could not be restored. The pakistani milttary administration was giving wide publicity in and outside the country that everything had been going normal in erstwhile East Pakistan.
Among the commendable operations the Crack platoon performed were the blow-up of Rampura power station, explosion in Hotel Purbani and the USIS library, attack on Thatari Bazar Rajakar camp and face-to-face fight with the Pakistani army at Jatrabari. At the intial stage when the Crack platoon arrived in Dacca it had only 17 guerillas, but gradually the figure reached upto 140. On June 30, nine of the guerillas of the Crack platoon were caught by the pakistani army and seven of them were killed. They were Hafiz, Jewel, Bodi, Azad, Bakey, Rumi and Altaf.
- ↑ দৈনিক মনিং নিউজ ১৬ ডিসেম্বর ১৯৭৩-এ প্রকাশিত ‘Guerilla Operation in Dacca শীর্ষক প্রতিবেদনের অংশ।
