420 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ১৬৭। গেরিলারা ১২ মাস ব্যাপী গাডিয়ান ৩ নভেম্বর, ১৯৭১ যুদ্ধের লক্ষ্য স্থির করেছে GUARDIAN, NOVEMBER 3, 1971 GUERRILLAS SET A 12-MONTH TARGET Jim Hoagland Reports From A Base on The Indo-Pakistan Frontier India's military explosive border with East Pakistan lies several hundred yards from the small frontier post of Boyra, where a smiling young Indian Army lieutenant stood in ankle deep mud gesturing toward the frontier. "I will not be going with you," he told a half-dozen foreign journalists about to set off on foot across the frontier, "International law says we must not cross the border." The officer repeated this stilted comment several times for the correspondents he had escorted through Indian Army lines to Boyra. He had evidently eagerly rehearsed his words which reflect India's sensitivity to events in East Pakistan and India's disputed role in them. The Indian lieutenant passed the journalists on to a wizened man of perhaps 60 who carried an old carbine identified himself as "Mukti Bahini"-the guerrilla military arm- and then set off at a brisk pace through a drenching rainstorm. Floundering in the thick mud, the journalists followed him on a twisting four-mile hike through rice paddies and beside a border marker dividing India and East Pakistan. At the end of the march was an abandoned school house, now identified by a banner as sub-sector headquarters for the 'liberation Forces of Bangladesh." Major Najmul Huda, a 33-year-old precisely spoken man who said he had been a captain in the Pakistani Army, asserted that from the school house he controls on area of 150 square miles. He has a company of about a hundred regular soldiers who defected to the rebel cause, and 7,000 villagers trained by his forces. The guerrillas claim to have implanted such headquarters throughout East Pakistan, and say they are intensifying an insurgency that will drive the regular Pakistani Army from the territory in a year or so. It is impossible to judge the validity of their claims on a quick hike in and out of the rebel zone. But impartial analysis credit the guerrilla organisation with having expanded within seven months from zero to a force of 80,000 to 100,000 men, a figure roughly equal to the number of regular Pakistani soldiers deployed against them. These analysts feel that the Mukti Bahini may be developing from a rag-tag hurriedly thrown together force into something of an organisation with increasing capability for coordinated actions. Authoritative reports circulating in the diplomatic community here also support Major Huda's assertion that the Mukti Bahini has "become more aggressive and effective within recent weeks." In the past 20 days, rebel attacks concentrated on communications and logistics lines show a pattern of increasing sophistication in the guerrilla arms supplies and training, according to these reports, which add to the speculation that India
