586 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ Mukti Bahini Bangladesh Today” 15 September, 1971 Marches Ahead Vol. 1 : No. 8 MUKTI BAHINI MARCHES AHEAD (By A Special Correspondent) As the harassed and tired soldiers of West Pakistan occupation army mourn their dead comrades and bitterly await their own turn for the same fate in the hands of the Bengali freedom fighters, the Mukti Bahini, Bangladesh Liberation Forces, grows in size and, what is more important, in skill and efficiency. During the last twenty five weeks of the war about 25,000 West Pakistani invaders have paid with their lives the price for carrying out the orders of their dreadful masters-the blood-thirsty junta of Yahya Khan. Only last week the bodies of 70 West Pakistani army officers were taken to Dacca from the northern part of Bangladesh. No wonder then that the young West Pakistani army officers are reportedly beginning to question the cost of the occupation, both in terms of men and money. Besides attacking and killing the barbarous invaders by ambush the main strategy so far the Mukti Bahini guerillas has been to destroy the communications and power system. As reported in ‘The Times’, 90% of the culverts and small bridges on the roads. And this has been achieved with such skill and efficiency that the West Pakistan propagandists have been unnerved into claiming, as usual, that this must have been the work of Indians. That the operational efficiency of the Bangladesh guerillas is continually on the increase is amply demonstrated by the fact that, despite the tight cordon erected by the occupation army around Dacca a passenger freight train was dynamited by our guerillas on the last Friday, thus disrupting all rail traffic between Dacca and Narayanganj. The guerillas today operate regularly around Sylhet, Rangpur and in border areas around Comilla sometimes approaching Dacca. Vast border areas are completely liberated and our freedom fighters control most of the countryside. Miss Clare Hollingsworth of “The Daily Telegraph’ claims to have seen the Bangladesh flag flying over a considerable area within 40 miles of Dacca. The victory of the Mukti Bahini over the occupation army of Yahya Khan is inevitable. It is inevitable not only because of the military efficiency of the Mukti Bahini but also because of the support and co-operation our valiant freedom fighters receive from our population which is, as Miss Hollingsworth puts it, “Bangladesh to a ஆத IT1{lIl.
- Bangladesh Today: গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ, মুজিবনগর সরকারের লন্ডনস্থ বাংলাদেশ মিশনের প্রচার বিভাগ কর্তৃক প্রকাশিত একটি পাক্ষিক।
