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Bangladesh: Conference On 1971 Genocide

Monday, October 26th, 2009 @ 12:39 UTC

by Rezwan

Countries:: Pakistan, Bangladesh
Topics:: History, Human Rights, War & Conflict, International Relations
Languages:: English

Mash attended the 2nd conference on the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide organized by the Human Rights Institute and the Bangladesh Genocide Study Group at Kean University and posted about it in his blog Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying. “The focus was on eyewitness accounts, documentation and memorialization of the Genocide, and the upcoming Genocide trials in Bangladesh,” he reports.

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