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.

This page is very much a work in progress and new material is added regularly. The site currently has the following content.
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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American Broadcasting Corporation

  • VIDEO: Bangladesh government formed — ABC
  • Daily Telegraph (London)

  • Far from the holocaust — Nicholas Tomalin
  • New York Times

  • EAST PAKISTANIS CLAIM CONSULATE — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • Governor Appeals to People — Eric Pace
  • Newsweek

  • Pakistan: Reign of Terror
  • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Minutes of Senior Review Group Meeting
  • Memorandum From Harold Saunders of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) — Harold Saunders
  • Paper Prepared by the National Security Council’s Interdepartmental Group for Near East and South Asia for the Senior Review Group, Washington, undated
  • Reuters

  • VIDEO: EAST PAKISTAN: BANGLA DESH "LIBERATION FIGHTERS" AT SECRET HEADQUARTERS (1971) — Reuters
  • Time

  • Pakistan: The battle of Kushtia — Dan Coggin
  • Times (London)

  • Bengal army abandons south-west — Bryan May
  • Mujib moved — Associated Press
  • Rebel commander admits ‘odds are against us’ — Michael Hornsby