Book Info
1971: Genocide-Torture Archive & Museum hosted three international conferences in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The main themes of the three conferences were genocide-torture and liberation war. This book is a compilation of english essays which were presented in these conferences. In the 15 articles, experts from home and abroad have analyzed the issues of liberation war and genocide-torture from different perspectives. The compilation is edited by Professor Muntassir Mamoon. Those who have written in this impeccable collection are- Sayed Anwar Husain, Bangabandhu Chair at Bangladesh University of Professionals; Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Professor, Department of History, West Bengal State University; Imtiaz Ahmed, Professor, Department of International Relations, Dhaka University; Sahara Ahmed, Professor, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, West Bengal; Hiranmay Karlekar, Journalist, India; Muntassir Mamoon, Bangabandhu Chair, Chittagong University; Shahriar Kabir, Journalist and Author; Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik, Retired Judge of the Appellate division of the Supreme Court, Bangladesh; Murshida Bintey Rahman, Associate Professor, Department of History, Jagannath University; Srimanti Sarkar, Researcher, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies; Tureen Afroz, Chairman, Department of Law, East West University; Julian Francis, Activist, UK; Khin Zaw Win, Director, Tampadipa Institute in Yangon, Myanmar.
Muntassir Mamoon
Muntassir Mamoon (b. 1951) was born in Dhaka, did his M.A. and Ph.D from Dhaka University. Currently he is a professor in the Department of History, Dhaka University. He is eminently known as a historian and also a writer. He has written a number of. books in the different branches of literature. He is a recipient of many awards. Bangla Academy Award is one of them. His important research publications are: Unish Satake Purba-Banger Samaj, Festivals of Bangladesh, Smriti-Bismsritir Nagar-Dhaka, Inside Bureaucracy: Bangladesh (Coauthor) Struggle for Civil Society in Bangladesh (Co-author) and Unish Satake Bangladesher Sangbad Samyik patra (9 vol).