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.