বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : দশম খন্ড (a) Regular Forces: (a) A battalion at Faridpur BOP area facing Nawabgonj Town. of Niamita bahini (b) Less than a battalion under command Maj. Rashid opposite Sardah Police Station. (b) Guerilla Forces : (a) Approx, 6000 of them. They used to be located opposite Lalgola/ Bhagabangola area. They had group leaders thana leaders and special task force leaders. They used to go deep inside and carry out sabotage activities mainly and after 15 days / month or so exfiltrate through main defence to their camp in liberated areas. After rest / refit and taking ammunition etc. They used to go back to their own areas of operation Particularly in the areas where they came from. (c) Informers / Motivators : We trained large number of young boys to act as our informer. Their job was to collect information from inside and pass it on to us about enemy's disposition, defence layout, movement, state of morale etc. They used to contact the guerillas inside the country side and help them also to carry ammunition etc. for them, by acting as guide. They also used to motivate the local people not to cooperate with occupation army. I organized my unconventional operation with the help of regular forces by changing the technique. We used to concentrate at a particular sector of my area of operation. After engaging the enemy frontally we used to go for sabotage activities behind the line particularly by disrupting the communication, like blowing the bridges, electric lines, electrical sub-stations, telephone poles, and some other key point installations. After some time to divert attention we went all over the place for organized ambush. In some places we came out successful. Once or twice in a week we used to get engaged in a pitch battle with them face to face and again pull back to play on their morale and nerve. All through we carried out so many small scale operations which is very difficult to enumerate here. However, I will like to give the run down of two very successful operation during my command of the sector. Although here also I could not give the name of the place as was given in the map. OPERATION 'KABZAKARA' On 10 November I was requested by Lt. Col. Q. N. Zaman to plan an attach at Sonamasjid area on road Maldah-Nawabganj. Occupation army was putting up a very
