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A Sector Commander Remembers Bangladesh Liberation War 1971

Published on : 16 July, 2020

Colonel (Retd.) Quazi Nooruzzaman was a retired army Major before the liberation war of 1971. On 25 March he was grief-stricken and angered at the brutal killing of Bengali EPR members and their families by the Pakistani army. Seeing the brutality, Major (Retd.) Quazi Nooruzzaman consulted with his family and decided to take up arms against the invaders. Sending his family to a village named Gandhina in the district of Mymensingh, he made contact with (then) Major Shafiullah’s battalion. War commander (then) Colonel M. A. G. Osmani kept Major Nooruzzaman by his side and assigned him to various tasks. In July, Quazi Nooruzzaman was appointed sector commander of sector 7. This brave and independent man was born on March 24, in 1925. His father was Khan Sahib Sadrullah. His mother was Ratubunnesa. Before completing his honors in chemistry at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, he joined the Navy in 1943, without the approval of his father. Serving with the Navy led to disagreements on several occasions with British officers. That took him to the Court Martial twice, but because of his being highly intelligent he was spared. In 1946, on the call of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, he transferred from the Navy to the Army. After receiving higher education from England’s Royal Artillery School in 1949, he joined the war in Kashmir in Jhelum sector. He worked as a teacher at Cadet Training School in 1950. In 1956 he was promoted to Major. In Staff College in 1958, after careful study, he concluded that war did not solve any problems, and it is not possible to solve the political problems of the future with war. With this decision, he was transferred in EPIDC in 1962. There too, he had disagreements with the West Pakistani bureaucrats . He was angry with the civil servants and so he voluntarily retired from service in 1969 and concentrated on business. Army Colonel Quazi Nooruzzaman in his working life, especially since 1962, developed a close relationship with the country's progressive schools of thought and intellectual authors. When Ahmed Sharif was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka, Qazi Nooruzzaman was attracted to his distinction and made contact with him. Ahmed Sharif respected Nooruzzaman’s social opinions, freedom, and firmness of character. Nooruzzaman was closely involved with the institutes Sharif established in the country and worked with him until his death. Colonel Quazi Nooruzzaman, Bir-Uttam, wrote regular columns in several newspapers, against imperialism and domination. Colonel (Retd.) Quazi Nooruzzaman was a defiant person. He inspired the participation of crowds in all domestic and foreign reactionary opposition movements. He was one of the authors of the camp of Bangladesh, a member of the Democratic Front at the forefront of culture. Colonel (Retd.) Quazi Nooruzzaman, Bir Uttam, as committee convener, developed progressive political movements for democratic anti-fascist forces. He was a founder of the Centre for the Development of the Spirit of the Liberation War in 1985. He served as a judge at the People's Court. Trojan.Weekly was published under his editorship. He was the editor of “Ekattorer Ghatok O Dalalra Ke Kothay” (Whereabouts of the Traitors and Collaborators of ‘71 ). His books-”Muktijuddha O Rajniti” (Liberation War and Politics,” “Bangladesher Shomaj O Rajniti” (Society and Politics of Bangladesh,) and the” Swadesh Chinta” (Patriotic Thoughts) are favourites of citizens. Quazi Nooruzzaman succumbed to death on May 6, 2011. Source: “Ekattorer Muktijuddha-Ekjon Sector Commander Er Sritikotha”-Author Colonel (Retd.) Quazi Nooruzzaman. Author:Mouri Tania Read more about Quazi Nooruzzaman From the following links:

Quazi Nooruzzaman Sector Commander 1971 Liberation War