BSS, Faridpur :
Following the fall of Jessore Cantonment, the killer Pakistani Army started retreating to rear headquarter at Faridpur after crossing the river Madhumati along the Kamarkhali-Magura border.
The butchers with vain efforts as the last try for survival started consolidating their strength from different angles but the brave Mukti Bahini ambushed at different points on the Kamarkhali-Faridpur road causing casualties and material losses to the invaders.
On December 9, as many as 40 valiant Freedom Fighters led by FF commander Kazi Salauddin Nasim attacked a retreating Pakistani army van near Karimpur bridge causing them to suffer heavy losses. Soon a column of Pakistani convoy rushed to the spot, but the FFs on strategic reason retreated and took position in Dhopadanga Chandpur village.
The Pakistani soldiers followed the FFs and gheraod their position. Then an unequal mini-battle ensued between a small Muktibahini contingent and a large number of Pakistani soldiers armed with modern weapons. Still the Mukti Bahini spirited by the patriotic zeal resisted the invaders for a few hours.
Leader of this contingent Kazi Salauddin, Mesbahuddin Nowfel, Abdul Wahab, Shamsuddin Molla, Mainuddin, Abdul Hamid and Mujibur Rahman, all college students, embraced martyrdom in the Karimpur battle.
The Pakistani hyenas set ablaze the house where injured Salauddin and Nowfel took shelter. Another prominent Muktibahini leader Hemayetuddin, who reinforced Salauddin during the battle, also received serious bullet injuries on his thumb. Momin and Tabibur Rahman were also injured in the battle.
However, the other Muktibahini members Idris Molla, Dr. Runu, Abu Bakar Siddique, Aminur Rahman Farid and Kazi Fariduddin (younger brother of Salauddin) survived in the Karimpur battle. Aminur Rahman Farid, now a sports organizer, told BSS that it was a big loss for the Mukti bahini at the fag end of the war.
Farid, an active participant in the Karimpur battle, further said that the burnt remains of the martyred Muktibahini youths were later laid to eternal rest in Alipur graveyard of the town after December 16, the day Bangladesh emerged as a completely Independent country with the surrender of coward Pakistani forces at the then Race Course in Dhaka.
Following the fall of Jessore Cantonment, the killer Pakistani Army started retreating to rear headquarter at Faridpur after crossing the river Madhumati along the Kamarkhali-Magura border.
The butchers with vain efforts as the last try for survival started consolidating their strength from different angles but the brave Mukti Bahini ambushed at different points on the Kamarkhali-Faridpur road causing casualties and material losses to the invaders.
On December 9, as many as 40 valiant Freedom Fighters led by FF commander Kazi Salauddin Nasim attacked a retreating Pakistani army van near Karimpur bridge causing them to suffer heavy losses. Soon a column of Pakistani convoy rushed to the spot, but the FFs on strategic reason retreated and took position in Dhopadanga Chandpur village.
The Pakistani soldiers followed the FFs and gheraod their position. Then an unequal mini-battle ensued between a small Muktibahini contingent and a large number of Pakistani soldiers armed with modern weapons. Still the Mukti Bahini spirited by the patriotic zeal resisted the invaders for a few hours.
Leader of this contingent Kazi Salauddin, Mesbahuddin Nowfel, Abdul Wahab, Shamsuddin Molla, Mainuddin, Abdul Hamid and Mujibur Rahman, all college students, embraced martyrdom in the Karimpur battle.
The Pakistani hyenas set ablaze the house where injured Salauddin and Nowfel took shelter. Another prominent Muktibahini leader Hemayetuddin, who reinforced Salauddin during the battle, also received serious bullet injuries on his thumb. Momin and Tabibur Rahman were also injured in the battle.
However, the other Muktibahini members Idris Molla, Dr. Runu, Abu Bakar Siddique, Aminur Rahman Farid and Kazi Fariduddin (younger brother of Salauddin) survived in the Karimpur battle. Aminur Rahman Farid, now a sports organizer, told BSS that it was a big loss for the Mukti bahini at the fag end of the war.
Farid, an active participant in the Karimpur battle, further said that the burnt remains of the martyred Muktibahini youths were later laid to eternal rest in Alipur graveyard of the town after December 16, the day Bangladesh emerged as a completely Independent country with the surrender of coward Pakistani forces at the then Race Course in Dhaka.
