Month of Victory
<i>Mural of martyred teenage freedom fighter demanded</i>
25 December 2012, 18:00 PM
Mizanur RahmanLocal freedom fighters have demanded setting up a mural with the portrait of martyred freedom fighter Mizanur Rahman.
Then an intermediate first year student of Lohagara Degree College, Mizan joined the Liberation War after receiving some training at the local level.
His fellow freedom fighter Sayem Ali described the scene of his martyrdom.
"As Md Siddiqur Rahman, then a teacher of Narail Victoria College, also serving as a collaborator of the Pakistan occupation army, sent a massage to the freedom fighters that a group of Pak army and their local collaborator Rajakars would surrender at his Masimdia village house in Narail Sadar upazila, freedom fighters led by Mizanur Rahman went there on December 9 in 1971 when the treacherous enemy ambushed us.
"At one stage, the freedom fighters had to retreat. Suddenly Mizan turned back alone and hurled a grenade at the enemy but it did not burst. Then a bullet pierced his chest and he died on the spot," said Sayem, who was captured and mercilessly beaten by Razakars that day.
"After that the enemy hung Mizan's body with a bamboo pole, marched the town with it and arranged a 'photo session' at Narail Chowrasta to get wicked pleasure. We heard that they buried Mizan at Narail town graveyard. But the grave could not be detected yet," he said.
The next day, the freedom fighters got reorganised and attacked the camp of Pak army and Rajakars on the compound of Narail Water Development Board, forcing them to surrender.
"We want setting up a mural with the portrait of Mizanur Rahman to keep his glorious sacrifice alive in the mind of the new generation," said Mizan's fellow freedom fighter Sayed Moniruzzam, now financial affairs secretary of Narail district unit of Muktijoddha Sangsad.
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