Rewrite war history listening to people
Speakers urge historians at int'l seminar
Speakers at an international seminar here yesterday said historians should go to people's door to obtain the true history of the country's liberation war.
"History does not always carry the truth, as it is written on only powerful people", said Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqi.
"If people are not in history, the leader of the history would not be found", he said while addressing the seminar as the chief guest. "We have to go to people to collect true history of the liberation war."
The minister also cautioned that some evil people along with the defeated forces made ill attempt to distort the history of the liberation war of 1971.
Rajshahi city Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton stressed the need to convey the war's true history to young generation. History should not keep limited in books and papers, he said.
The two-day seminar titled "Practice of liberation war history and achievement of Bangladesh" was held at RU Senate Bhaban.
The university's Institute of Bangladesh Studies (IBS) organised the seminar as part of RU's year-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the War of Liberation.
Prof Abu Muhammad Delwar Hossain, general secretary of Bangladesh History Society, said over 3,000 books, written on the freedom war so far, are mostly characterised by "reproduction" and "repetition".
IBS Director Prof Mahbubur Rahman, Prof Hasan Azizul Haque and History Professor Dr Rabin Pal of Visva-Bharati University, among others, addressed the seminar.
Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqi, Prof Dr Syed Anwar Hussain, and Bangla Academy Director General Shamsuzzaman Khan presented papers at the first session of the seminar.
The second session of the seminar was held at IBS conference centre. The second-day seminar will be held at the same venue today (Saturday).
Academicians, researchers, and fellows from different universities at home and abroad and other personalities will present 72 papers in 16 sessions at the two-day seminar.
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