Help write region-based history: Info minister
People will get a detail and objective history of the Liberation War of 1971 once Bangla Academy has successfully finished writing the region-based history of the war, said Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad yesterday.
Addressing a seminar on writing of the region-based history as the chief guest, the minister said it could not be possible in 40 years to write the detail and objective history of the liberation war.
So the initiative of Bangla Academy of writing such root level history of the war is timely and necessary, he observed.
He called upon researchers and others concerned to help the academy with documents and others to finish the initiative successfully.
Prof Kabir Chowdhury presided over the seminar at Bangla Academy seminar room.
Bangla Academy Director General Shamsuzzaman Khan, Maj (retd) Kamrul Hasan Bhuiyan, Shahriar Kabir, Tarek Ali, Mohammad Khalilur Rahman, Prof Shantanu Kaiser, Prof Abul Ahsan Chowdhury, Shafiqur Rahman also spoke.
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