[5][6][7] Kamal is the chairman of the Research and Development Collective and the general secretary of the Bangladesh Adivasi Odhikar Andolon.
[8] Kamal was born 21 July 1958 in Chapai Nawabganj District, East Bengali, Pakistan.
[10] He finished his PhD from the University of Dhaka in 2015 and his thesis was on Manabendra Narayan Larma and the Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict.
[11] Kamal has been critical of the politics of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Khaleda Zia describing it as destructive nationalism.
[3] Lawyer Gazi M H Tamim filed a genocide complaint against Kamal, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, 29 journalists, and 22 others including Muhammad Zafar Iqbal.