Kader Siddique Kader Siddiqui ( , born 1948 Tangail ) often hailed as Bagha ( Tiger ) Kader or Bongo Bir ( Hero of Bengal ) is one of the most famous fighters and organizers of the Bangladesh Liberation War . Siddiqui has to be decorated as Bir Uttom by the government of Bangladesh . He organized and fought with an estimated 10 , 000 - strong guerrilla force in the Tangail region against the Pakistan Army . This army was called Kaderia Bahini ( Kader ' s Army ) . At the end of the war , on December 16 , Siddique ' s forces entered Dhaka along with the Indian forces , signalling the end of the war . Involvement in massacres of prisoners of war . According to a report in The Times , Siddiqui ' s guerrillas beat up and subsequently bayoneted and shot to death a group of prisoners ( who they claimed were Razakars ) after a rally held near Dhaka Stadium on December 19 , at which Siddiqui himself gave an hour long speech . The prisoners were murdered after performing Islamic prayers together with their captors . According to the same source , shortly before murdering them , the Mukti Bahini soldiers promised the prisoners ' a fair trial , as in any civilized country ' . Abdul Kader Siddiqui personally bayoneted three prisoners to death and the entire incident was filmed by foreign film crews whom Siddiqui invited to witness the spectacle . Siddiqui was subsequently arrested by the Indian Army . Siddiqui discussed his involvement in the murders in an interview with Yasmin Saikia , the author of ' Women , War and Making Bangladesh : Remembering 1971 ' . After describing an event in which Siddiqui shot a Mukti Bahini soldier for stealing a shawl from a Bengali civilian , Saikia states , referring to the Dhaka stadium incident , that ' at the time he did not think of his act as a crime against humanity , being swayed by the Bengali public sentiment for revenge . Today he knows that both the acts - killing a younger soldier for a petty theft and killing the Biharis for being different from the Bengalis - were public acts of violence disguised under the label of national morale to establish the power of the Bengalis and claim victory , but they were violent acts , nonetheless , and he is pained by his past ' . Siddiqui was never tried for these crimes . Post - 1971 . After East Pakistan seceded from West Pakistan and became Bangladesh , Siddiqui went back to his home town of Tangail where he enjoyed considerable patronage from the Awami League , the party of then Prime Minister of Bangladesh , Mujibur Rahman . After the assassination of Mujibur Rahman in 1975 , Siddiqui and his followers organised attacks on the authorities of Khondakar Mushtaque ' s government . Elements loyal to Siddiqui operated from bases in Assam province in India and were actively supported by India ' s Border Security Force . Siddiqui is presently an MP in the parliament of Bangladesh . In March 2013 , he accused the Bangladesh Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir of hypocrisy in domestic war crimes trials , calling him an ultra - Razakar . He stated , " The current Home Minister was an officer of the Pakistan Government . During the Liberation War . . . the Pakistan Army massacred people with the assistance of Dr Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir . "