The guerrillas of destiny
AKM Raisul Haq Bahar
AKM Raisul Huq Bahar was a guerilla freedom fighter. During the Liberation War, he took part in many operations in the port city and adjacent areas, playing a pivotal role in the region's liberation.
But his most significant operation came at the Kaiballadham Railway Bridge operation, in Kattoli area, where a train carrying Pakistan army personnel and ammunition was blown off. What's more, the very rail bridge carrying them was destroyed.
At the start of the war, Bahar went to India to receive training on organising and conducting guerrilla war and war-planning. After coming back, he conducted his first operation in July 1971 -- an attack on a Pakistan army camp at a school adjacent to Bilonia border in Feni.