Thank you for visiting the Bangladesh Archives. These archives are a collection of material on the 1971 war of Independence in Bangladesh. Material includes Newspaper and magazine articles. Documents from the US government and other sources, videos and audio matieral. Any suggestions and contributions of material is always welcome.

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Total items: 3024 — Text : 2762 — Image : 12 — Video : 250 — Audio : 0

The latest update was on: 2024-06-16 21:38:19 GMT

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Le Monde (Weekly English Edition)

  • PAKISTAN--THE WEEK OF THE BLOODBATH — Gerard Viratelle
  • New York Times

  • Divided Pakistan Was Born From Shaky Abstraction — Joseph Lelyveld
  • India Denies Deployment
  • Pakistanis Get Asylum
  • Editorial - Bloodbath in Bengal
  • PAKISTANI LEADER PLANS NEW TALKS WITH EAST'S AIDES — Tillman Durdin
  • Foreign Evacuees From East Pakistan Tell of Grim Fight — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • Nations Muting Comment on Pakistan To Avoid Inflaming the Trouble There — Benjamin Welles
  • Reuters

  • VIDEO: INDIA: FOREIGN NATIONALS EVACUATED FROM PAKISTAN ARRIVE BY SEA IN CALCUTTA (1971) — Reuters
  • Times (London)

  • IMAGE: Maulana Bhasani: At home in an Islamic state.
  • Famine fears may force Pakistan talks — A. M. Rendel
  • British refugees from Chittagong tell of murder by both sides — Peter Hazelhurst
  • East Bengal's leftists bide their time — Richard Harris
  • U.S. National Archives

  • Telegram 58039 From the Department of State to the Consulate General in Dacca, Washington, April 7, 1971, 0014Z — William Rogers
  • Washington Post

  • Refugees from East Pakistan Tell of Mass Executions