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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New York Times

  • COMMUNIST CHINA BACKS PAKISTAN AND WARNS INDIA — Eric Pace
  • 30 U.S. Scholars Appeal To Yahya for Truce in East
  • Pakistan Claims Victory at Key Railhead
  • West Pakistan's Proconsul in East
  • Indians Report Perils
  • Peking Involvement Doubted — Tad Szulc
  • Wheat Shipments Stopped
  • Kosygin Meets Ambassadors — Bernard Gwertzman
  • India Denies Charge
  • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Policy Review on Pakistan: Memorandum From the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon — Henry Kissinger
  • Northern Echo

  • EDITORIAL: The civil war in Pakistan
  • Reuters

  • VIDEO: EAST PAKISTAN SUBODH MITRA OF THE BANNED AWAMI LEAGUE VISITS SOLDIERS OF THE SELF-STYLED BANGLADESH LIBERATION ARMY. — Reuters
  • VIDEO: EAST PAKISTAN AND INDIA: EAST PAKISTAN REFUGEES FLEE ACROSS BORDER TO INDIA AS MONSOON RAINS START. — Reuters
  • Times (London)

  • Thousands still fleeing frightened Dacca — Dennis Neald
  • Witness to a massacre in East Pakistan — Peter Hazelhurst
  • Bengal clashes raise the spectre of big-power conflict — Peter Hazelhurst
  • Today Show, Station WRC-TV, D.C.

  • East Pakistani Revolt Near End, Says AP Reporter — Frank Blair
  • Washington Post

  • Indian Officers Expected to Aid East Pakistani Guerillas — Lee Lescaze
  • India's Stability Allows Moderation on Pakistan — Selig S. Harrison