Raihan Jamil

The Researchers

The Center for Bangladesh Genocide Research (CBGR) is an American institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of the history of 1971 genocide, and serves as Bangladesh’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the 1971. During the nine-month-long War of Independence from West Pakistan, the Pakistani army killed over 3 million Bangladeshis, and … Read more

Raihan Jamil

Raihan Jamil, Ph.D., is the  co-reseacher and the primary content supervisor of Center for Bangladesh Genocide Research. Jamil prefers to remain behind the scenes and assist in highlighting those who need (and deserve) to be in the foreground of things. In this case, that person is the one and only MD. Mahbubur Rahman Jalal (MMRJ). … Read more

MD. Mahbubur Rahman (Jalal)

A Devoted 1971 Archivist Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman Jalal (MMR Jalal), a Bangladeshi American currently living in Texas, for many years has been playing an instrumental role in collecting the documents on the independence war of Bangladesh. He actively got involved in our freedom fight with his distressed family from his native Rajbari district as a … Read more

Genocide Gallery

The images below are courtesy of Naib Uddin Ahmed (Amar Bangla; link), Kishore Parekh, and the book Photographs on Liberation War of Bangladesh (Ministry if Information, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh). Directions: to view the images, click on any one image, and after it opens up, you will see a < and a … Read more

Refugee Gallery

All the images are from the UNHCR Report of 1972. You may read the full report from our site HERE. Directions: to view the images, click on any one image, and after it opens up, you will see a < and a > button near the left and right edges of the opened image.