WAR OF INDEPENDENCE : 1,080 sites identified for preservation

Government has identified for preservation 1,080 sites which bear the memories of the War of Independence.
The heritage sites include major battlefields and targets of guerilla operations.
The sites to be preserved also include torture cells and camps run by the occupation army of Pakistan and its collaborators.
Government embarked on the project as the sites are gradually disappearing.
The Liberation War Affairs Ministry would send the list of the sites to be preserved to the Local Government Engineering Department for preparing the Development Project Proforma, said Liberation War Affairs minister AKM Mozammel Huq.
In December 2014, the Liberation War Affairs Ministry  asked all the deputy commissioners to send a list of the sites to it.
In last December the ministry received the lists from the all deputy commissioners, said officials.
The DCs identified 1,080 sites, including battle fields, said Mozammel.
The government would build  memorials at all the sites, he said.
The heroic resistance put up against the occupation army of Pakistan from the Rajarbagh Police Lines, the battle of Daruin in Comilla and battle of Rangamati-Mahalchari waterway in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh naval commando operation codenamed Operation Jackpot, the Mukti Bahini’s attack using fighter planes on a Pakistani oil depot near Chittagong seaport, fighting at Kaddar More in Siddhirganj under Narayanganj, the battles of Kamalpur,  Akhaura, Chilmari, Jahazmara  and the Crack Platoon’s guerilla operations at Banani in which former governor Abdul Monem Khan was killed, are among the major memorable events of bravery of the Mukti Bahini.
Kadeira Bahini, Afsar Bahini, Baten Bahini and Hemayet Bahini also fought valiantly and carried out guerilla operations against the occupation army of Pakistan.
Officials said identified torture  cells and camps in all the districts where the Pakistani occupation army and its collaborators tortured freedom fighters and raped women.

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