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POP, POP, POP, POP, POP. Those were the sounds of gunfire ringing in Golam Mowla Sarker’s ears as he jumped into the chilling body of water below him. It was 1975, his dad died and he was only 17. His uncle was cruel to him and his mom and instead of letting him go to school he made him work in their rice paddies field. So having no other choice he traveled to Shylet by boat to pick up 200 to 300 tons of rice paddies. It would take time for all of it to be gathered so he decided to sleep overnight in his boat along with the other boatmen near him. But after just a few minutes of shutting his eyes, the soldiers spotted them and started firing randomly. Instinctively, he jumped out of the boat and stayed underwater until he could no longer hear …show more content…
Although it was not something that one would be proud of nor was it a relation that one would acquaint to he was glad that Tamiz was his brother in law. If it weren’t for him he and the rest of his family would’ve been murdered a long time ago. His village, Zear Kandi was right next to the sea, therefore, is easily accessible to the soldiers and to their horrid acts. During his trips, he would see how the soldiers would randomly shoot and burn the parents and children alive. In other instances, they would kidnap the women for their sex camps if they weren’t already raped and murdered in their homes. Tamiz’s traitorous acts included informing the Pakistani soldiers of the homes of Mukhti Bahinis where they would be located and killed and if they weren’t there their homes were burned down. In return for these misdeeds, the Pakistani soldiers respected his wishes and did not attack several villages within the Comilla district which included Zear Kandi, Shahidnagar, Goripur and more. But by keeping their promise they would never be able to find the captain of the freedom fighters, Wahab Sarker. Ironically, Wahab was the brother in law of Tamiz Uddin Sarker and Golam

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