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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : নবম খণ্ড
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morning on 14th April, I received more troops from here and there who had been deserting from the battle and put them in my defence. One of them was Havilder Arab Ali who was the driver of Brig MR Majumder. IIe escaped from the Pakistani cell at Chittagong Cant. Was mercilessly beaten and half dead.

 The greatest blunder I made there I left my troops under a senior JCO of EPR there and went to the rear at Kaptai with Ex Corporal Karim to know the location of our main bulk of force who left Kalurghat yesterday. After reaching at Kaptai I came to know the our forces had already left for Rangamati for onward proceed to Kahgrachhari. I found my troops running scatteredly. En had already attacked my position and shattered everything. Out of about 2 coy str I could collect hardly 2 scattered Pls and with that I started withdrawing in search of our main force in the rear.

 I reached Khagrachhari on 13th April 71 and met with all officers and troops. Major (now Brig) Ziaur Rahman, who had been holding many en fronts like Shobhanpur-Chhagalnaiya rd, Karcrhat-Chittagong rd, Nazirhat-Chittagong rd and also our front, came there at Khagrachhari and gave us a new plan to hold Rangamati front by the axis river Chengi. We all came back to Mahalchhari on 14th April and made our Tac HQ. Troops were reorganized and distributed for different places. Major (now Brig) Ziaur Rahman took Capt. (now Major) Khalequzzaman, Capt. Aftab Quader and a pl and left for Ghagra RH on 15th April 71. I took a pl along with Sub Khairuzzaman of EPR. Ex Corporal Karim, two civil offr-one was Mr. Ishaque a Chemical Engineer of KPM and the other was Mr. Murree of Chandraghona an International Football Player, two brave students-one was Farooque Ahmed and the other was Shawkat Ali (both of them Lt. now) and left for Burighat bazaar short of Rangamati Sub. Abdul Mutaleb with a pl left for Kutukchhari short of Rangamati by rd. For few days we had been raiding, ambushing and harassing the en around Rangamati. On 17th April, an cn pl in motor launch bumped into Capt (now Major) Khalequzzaman and Capt. Aftab Quader's island blindly and suffered by casualty. On 18then with a coy str in 2-3 launches encircled Capt: Khalequzzaman's island, pounded heavily and attacked. L/Nk Munshi Abdur Rob of 8 E Bengal died gallantly in that operation. En contacted Mizos and had complete control over them during last few days. They reached around Mahalchhari our Tac HQ and started operating. We were called back and asked to guard the Tac IIQ.

 On 27th April, en about 2 coy str along with more than thousand Mizos concentrated near our Tac IIQ. Unluckily one of our recce patrol bumped into their hide out. Finding on other alternative, en had to launch an unplanned attack on Capt. (now Major) Khalequzzaman's Coy, ahead of Tac IIQ. Major Shawkat sent me with a pl to reinforce Capt. Khaleq. By the time I reached there found Capt. Khaleq's Coy was more or less encircle. I blindly dashed with my pl and occupied Capt. Khaleq's Coy left over trenches and opened up. My right sec under Sub. Saqbed Ali fell just on the nose of the en but made a good effort to let Capt. Khaleq to extricate safety with some of his troops. T