Rajarbagh Police Lines: Where 1st armed resistance of Liberation War took place

Midnight, March 25, 1971, Rajarbagh Police Lines was surrounded by Pakistani armed forces with heavy weaponry, military vehicles and tanks and a few hundred Bengali police with 303 calibre rifles inside the police lines grounds.

This was one of the initial targets of the monstrous "Operation Searchlight," and it was also the site of the first armed resistance that the Pakistani army faced in Bangladesh's Liberation War.

Shahjahan Mia, the whistleblower who informed the country of the Pakistani attack and also one of the brave fighters of Rajarbagh Police Lines in that day, and Mahbub Uddin Ahmed Bir Bikram shared how the liberation struggle took arms for the first time.

Watch in Star Special.