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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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Christian Science Monitor

  • Standby Loan?: Pakistanis Press United States For Aid — Lucia Mouat
  • Power Shift To Dacca Politicians — Denzil Peiris

    • Congressional Record

  • STATEMENT OF ROBERT DORFMAN BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIAN-PACIFIC AFFAIRS, FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — United States Congress

    • New York Times

  • Yahya Again Says Aim Is Civil Rule — Malcolm W. Browne
  • Martial Pakistani Chief -- Agha Mohammad Yahya
  • Pakistani Strife Said to Continue — Sydney H. Schanberg

    • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Memorandum From Samuel Hoskinson and Richard Kennedy of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)

    • Reuters

  • VIDEO: USA: PAKISTAN AMBASSADOR CALLS FOR END TO EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE IN REFUGE PROBLEM (1971) — Reuters
  • VIDEO: INDIA: RIGHT-WING DEMONSTRATORS CALL FOR RECOGNITION OF "BANGLA DESH" (1971) — Reuters

    • Times (London)

  • Prime Minister of Bangla Desh asks for British recognition in secret interview — Peter Hazelhurst
  • Pakistan plans elected rule — U.P.I., Reuter

    • U.S. National Archives

  • Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State (Eliot) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, May 25, 1971 — Theodore L. Eliot

    • Washington Post

  • Nobody Seeks War, Says Yahya Khan
  • India Raps Powers Over East Pakistan