fell with two Secs under the direct frontal fire of the en. Hundreds of Mizos in green camouflaged uniform running in front towards us through jungle. Sep (now Nk) Razzaque LMG man of left See killed many in front but finished his all ammunitions and started shouting. Only one LMG of right see now was still continuing. But still en was probing forward having lot of cas. I shouted for my left sec comd to pull back followed by right Sec. Once we fell a little back. Major Shawkat opened up the MG from Tac IIQ on to the en. I pulled my pl intact luckily and joined Maj Shawkat. Sub. Loni mia of EPR one of my sec comd showed extraordinary bravery in this operation. En kept his momentum and now started pounding with 3 inch mortars heavily at our Tac HQ. We did not have a single 2 inch mortar even to retaliate. We could see the pak troops kicking the Mizos form the rear to advance. We had to hold a wider frontage to stop en advance by running from left to right and encouraging own troops. It was our misfortune Capt Aftab Quader got a burst on his left chest which pierced through the right and died with few seconds. We lost another of the bravest soldier. His dead body was sent along with two students (now Lt) Shawkat and Farooq through en hy fire to Ramgarh and buried respectfully in front of the post office. Immediately after the 1st night we pulled back. The Tac IIQ. Which we had been holding for half a month, we saw burning.
On 28th April, we reached Guimara via Khagrachhari and took another defence. Next day, we got signal to fall back to Ramgarh, as because the en was pushing own forces from Karerhat-Nazirhat sides simultaneously towards Ramgarh. On 30th Col (now Gen-retd) MAG Osmany paid an honorable visit there, met our troops and ordered to hold Ramgarh for 24hrs. Capt (now Major) Oli Ahmed with his Coy was In defence at Chikanchhara 5 miles ahead of Ramgarh and I took my Coy and took defence as reserve at baganbari BOP a mile short of Capt Oli's position. En attacked Capt Oli's position with a bn supported by arty. He resisted the en with maximum of his effort effectively and fell back to Ramgarh. En now was in my front and started driving having a continuous interval, in the process he also suffered a good number of casualty. On 2 May 71, from 10 o'clock morning till 3 o'clock evening, we had been vengaging and holding the en too right. Then they started using the arty heavily. Many of the en shells landed very close to us, but we were miraculously saved. Once at Mahamuni Buddha Mandir, 2 miles ahead of Ramgarh, one of my pl along what me got stuck and could not be extricated while falling back in leap frog manner, one of Sub Loni mia's, Sub Anwar of 8 E Bengal came out daringly with his LMG straightway on the road and gave me covering fire and by that only the pl come out Now we were under observation of our own MG at Ramgarh. Once we got a side Major Shawkat opened up with MG for last. We left Ramgarh alos, last piece of land of Bangladesh, and crossed over to Sabrum in the evening.
