Chitta Francis Rebeiro, a former student leader and editor of the Shikha Anirban weekly, in his Bengali-language article speaks of the political background of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, how it affected Rangamatia area (now in the present district of Gazipur), how dozens of students received freedom fighters' training in India and fought in different sectors, how others procured and supplied food to the freedom fighters, some others who served as volunteers for Caritas India in Agartala refugee camps.
This write-up also gives a complete list of these people and also the ones who were killed and wounded in the West Pakistani army attack on Rangamatia on November 26, 1971.
