Rashed Chowdhury

Rashed Chowdhury served as an army captain in the Pakistani military during 1971. After learning of Operation Searchlight and the massacres in East Pakistan, he fled from Lahore in a military Jeep, crossed the border to India, and joined the liberation war with the Z Force under Colonel Ziaur Rahman. He became a decorated freedom fighter of Bangladesh. In retirement, he writes regularly on Bangladesh's contemporary issues and has authored half a dozen books, including A Soldier's Debt (2015), adapted from the Bangla রক্তের ঋণ (2024).