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List of freedom fighters and freedom fighters
List of freedom fighters and freedom fighters Total number of freedom fighters in the upazila: 01 (one). 1) Mr. Mohammad Akkel Ali, ID No-0207060001, Thanchi Bazar, Thanchi Bandarban Hills was the armed struggle of East Pakistan against the then West Pakistan in 1971, through which Bangladesh emerged on the world map as an independent country. On the night of March 25, 1971, when the Pakistani military forces plunged into East Pakistan to annihilate the Bengalis, the war of liberation began in the form of a people's war. He assassinated the PR and arrested Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the then popular leader of the Bengalis, the party with an absolute majority in the 1970 general election. Prior to his arrest, he declared the independence of Bangladesh in the early hours of March 26. [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] In the face of planned genocide, resistance war started all over the country; About 10 million people took refuge in neighboring India to save their lives. The East Bengal Regiment of the Pakistan Army, the East Pakistan Rifles (EPR), the East Pakistan Police, the Bengali members of the military and above all the freedom-loving people of Bangladesh formed the Mukti Bahini within a few months to liberate the country from the grip of the Pakistani military. Fighting in a guerrilla manner, the Mukti Bahini kept the Pakistani aggressors busy all over the country. During the war of liberation Bangladesh received economic, military and diplomatic assistance from India. When the fall of the Pakistani military became inevitable in early December, they engaged in a war against India on 3 December with air strikes in order to avoid the embarrassment of defeat to the freedom fighters and to turn the liberation war into an international conflict. From then on, India was directly involved in the war of independence of Bangladesh. In the face of a joint attack by the Liberation Army and the Indian Army, the already defeated Pakistani army decided to surrender. On 16 December, Pakistan formally surrendered at the Dhaka Racecourse with 93,000 troops. This marked the end of the nine-month bloody war of liberation; Bangladesh, the independent state of the Bengali nation, was established