Hello Mr Tariq Matin
I feel proud when I see our (though we dont reside now but we do have very good connections with the village) Middle Madarsha has a son who is valiant freedom fighter. May allmighty Allah bestow Jannah to him.
Nader Chowdhury
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> Mr. S.M Kamaluddin who was a valiant Freedom fighter passed away on 4th June 2009. He was buried in Middle Madarsha, Hathajari Chittagong on Satuday, June 6, 2009 with state honor.
> During 1971, Modinaghat by the river Halda, a branch of the river Karnaphuli was an extremely important strategic location in our liberation war.
> There was a center by the Modinaghat Bridge through which considerable power distribution used to take place. There was a check post of the Pakistan Army at Modinaghat. The Post was highly fortified and the Pak army was extremely vigilant there. This location was a symbol of the tyranny, arrogance, abuse, killings and atrocities committed by the Pak forces in our area.
> During the Independence war, Mr.Kamal led the Mukti Bahini in a highly sophisticated attack against Pakistani Army at this post. There were heavy casualties on the Pakistani forces. The power distribution plant was destroyed which was one of the objectives. This was one of the first major successful attacks against the Pakistan Army in Chittagong. The attack was symbolic as it instilled confidence and implanted the resolve to defeat the enemy.
> The Pak forces spread rumors at the aftermath of the operation that Mr. Kamal was killed and his dead body was floating in the river Halda.
> There was another rumor that Mr. Kamal was killed by Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury , who tried to capture and kill him in previous raids.
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> We were extremely sad. While this was going on, we got news through an informant that uncle Kamal was alive he would be coming to our village home at a particular night to see us. I wanted to go see him along with my father. My father thought about the danger involved in going to see him. At the end love and desire to see him won over reason.
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> From Chittagong City there were two ways to go to our village Middle Madarsha by the river Halda. One way was through Fateyabad, close to the Chittagong Cantonment and the Chittagong University.
> The second way was through Modinaghat. Communication to our village home was better through even though the Pak army would thoroughly search us.
> In addition to that, we would have to have our identity cards with us(the Pakistani troops used command us: "Dandi Card Nikalo").
> We secretly travelled from the City to our village home through the second route to avoid the Check Post.
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> Uncle Kamal came to see us at night. He embraced me and lifted me up in his arms. It was an electrifying moment. We were so happy to see him alive. He left for India after 26th March 1971. There he got guerilla training in India before coming back to take over as the commander of Mukti Bahini in our area. I was not old enough to join the Mukti Bahini in 1971, but will remember this moment as long as I live to tell posterity about the days of our liberation war as I have seen through my uncle.
> He was involved in many successful operations against the Pak forces until the liberation of Bangladesh on 16th December, 1971. The entire nation was ecstatic on 16th December, 1971. I felt the ultimate high when we finally greeted him with flowers on December 18, 1971 upon his return from the battlefield. You had to be there to breathe and smell the freedom of liberation in the air of liberated Bangladesh !
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> My hats off to you my dear uncle. God has been always with you, God has taken you and may God give you the best place in heavens for fighting against injustice and
> for taking the side of the people in protecting and liberating them.
> And thanks to you I have seen the birth of Bangladesh from so close and
> thanks to you I have tasted freedom with its true meaning.
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> I would like to urge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to honour this valiant
> Son of our soil so that his contribution for the liberation of Bangladesh
> will be remembered forever.
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> tariq matin
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