Metal caps recovered by Pakistani invaders in Habiganj

The metal cap of the Pakistani army has been recovered in Madhabpur of Habiganj. This hat was recovered from Chantila area No. 10 of Surma tea garden of Shahjahanpur Union on Saturday (April 1).

The metal cap used by the defeated Pakistani army in the 1971 war of independence was traced to an unidentified freedom fighter.

After 52 years of the great liberation war, the historian Dr. under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. During the survey conducted by the Liberation War Genocide Museum under the supervision of Muntasir Mamun, the principal of Shaistaganj Zahur Chan Bibi Mahila College, in charge of Habiganj district, Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun, recovered it at one point while collecting information about the 1971 genocide. Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun has been going around each and every upazila of Habiganj for almost a year and collecting information about the massacres organized by the invading forces of Pakistan.

At one point, Abdullah Al-Mamun along with Tofazzal Hossain Chowdhury, Madhabpur representative of Daily Bhorer Dak newspaper on Saturday 1st April, received information from Md. Phul Mia, member of Ward No. 8 of Shahjahanpur Union of the upazila, from Nandlal Munda, the organizer of the Liberation War of Chantila area No. 10 of Surma Cha Bagan. This metal cap was recovered. The cap was handed over to Nandlal Munda Al Mamun for preservation in the Liberation War Museum.

In this regard, Nandalal Munda said, he trained in India and fought in various places. In 1971, a group of about 20/25 people of Mukti Bahini, including him, attacked two trucks of Pakistan Army and killed them in the Satchari Reserve Forest area of Chunarughat. Nandalal Munda kept this hat as a souvenir even though he surrendered the weapon Gulbarud.

Nandalal said, I have fought for the country, I have left evidence by eliminating the Pak army, but I have not been recognized as a freedom fighter. I am happy to donate this hat to the museum. Family members of Nandalal Mundar were present when the hat was handed over.

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