৫২৯ বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : অষ্টম খন্ড The families have not so far heard from them. When they inquired at Army headquarters they were told that they bad deserted. The mutilated body of a major was delivered to this family with a letter of regret that he had committed suicide. The whereabouts of Brig. Majumdar, one of the best known Bengali officers, is unknown. He stayed with his Punjabi colleagues when his Bengali troops revolted in Chittagong. When his family asked about hi, they were told that any inquiry would invite trouble. On the right of June 2, an army jeep entered the Dhanmondi residential area of Dacca. A Government officer called Huq was dragged out of his house and taken to Kurmitola army cantonment. His wife telephoned Shafiul Azam, civilian head of the East Pakistan government who contacted army headquarters and was told no one called Huq had been brought in. An industrialist, Ranada Saha, was told to arrange a gala evening for army officers at his village home in Mirzapur. He went to discuss the arrangements and did nOf Teturn. Troops surrounded the house of a civil servant called Amin. He was taken away in an army truck with his aged parents, his wife and three children. His brother was an officer in Bengal Regiment which revolted and is now leading the Bangla Desh resistance near Comilla. The Amin family returned two days later without Mr. Amin. A captain entered Mitford Hospital in Dacca with two soldiers on 15th May, went to Ward Two and led away Dr. Rahman and another of his colleagues. They were told they were needed to work in Mymensingh. Their whereabouts are now unknown. Other troops went to American-run Holy Family Hospital but there were no surgeons, there. The hospital is now considering Closing down because many of its doctors have fled including the renowned child specialist, Dr. M. N. Huq. At Sylhet, all doctors except Surgeon-General Dr. Shamsuddin , fled across the border when the army entered the town. A major found Dr. Shamsuddin in the hospital theatre and shot him point blank. Most of the senior Bengali officers of the PIA are missing after being picked up, including Mr. Fazlul Huq, Deputy Managing Director for East Pakistan and Captain Sekander Ali, chief sector pilot. Since the military takeover the airline has dismissed about 2,000 Bengalis. Razakars have seized the two children of Major Khaled Mosharraf of the Bengal Regiment who deserted to the Mukti Fouj. The children aged six and four were first taken as hostages by the army. Their mother escaped to India. The children were released but then retaken. Relatives of missing persons believe that the Razakars are junior army officers working independently in league with non-Bengalis. Some families have received ransom demands and one case is know of money being paid without success.
