575 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ Report From Bangladesh News letter 21 June, 1971 Bangladesh London : No. 7 GUERRILLA ACTIVITIES INCREASE NATIONAL LIBERATIONS STRUGGLE HAS NOT FADED I was personally with the Commandos who made recently a number of sweeping raids inside the occupied territory in the Sylhet area. During the last fortnight over 500 West Pakistani troops have been killed and their arms and ammunition brought back to the base. Two jeeps and a military truck were also captured. The uniforms taken from the killed West Pakistani soldiers are now being used to deceive the enemy and their agents and a number of our student-guerrillas have managed to reach the interior. They keep in contact with the base by radio and through messengers, usually young boys. A gunboat was also sunk. Large areas in Northern Sylhet region have been liberated after three major bridges were destroyed and local quislings, informers and enemy spies were eliminated. We have established 30 camps where 30,000 volunteers are training. We have also seasoned freedom fighters and officers and men of the Bengal Regiment and the Militia and quite a few policemen, who are engaging the enemy in little battles while the guerrillas sneak behind the enemy camp and destroy their rations and everything else in the camp. We are definitely harassing the enemy now on the entire border front of 1034 miles. All Pakistani outposts near West Bengal, Assam and Tripura have been destroyed and during the rains we shall not allow them to rebuild their camps within Our range. A correspondent from Krishnanagar reports: I am one of the guerrillas. I was a student of Dacca University and saw with my own eyes my friends brutally murdered by the West Pakistani Army. I managed to flee to Calcutta and after a short training have joined the Freedom Fighters. I have lost almost all my relations. I have now to take revenge. Death no longer frightens me. I have seen death in its ghastliest from. We are now very active here. Our Mukti Foujis giving Pakistan Army a lesson or two. Many of our recruits are able-bodied men from the refugee camps we feel all men who can handle a gun or a spear should join the Mukti Fouj and leave the old, women and children and the sick only in the refugee camps. We are proud to have our Hindu brethren from Bangladesh also joining the Mukti Fouj. This makes our Army a non-communal body. Although the Biharees proved by and large traitors and joined the enemy of the Bengali, but you will be surprised that there are many Biharees, staunch members of either the Awami League or the National Awami Party, who are fighting with us shoulder to shoulder against the West Pakistan Army. Two Pathan soldiers who deserted recently, have also joined us. They are followers of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Many of us will welcome an International Brigade fighting with us.
