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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New York Times

  • India Reports Cholera Is Easing, But Refugee Problems Mount — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Conversation Among President Nixon, his Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), and the Ambassador to India (Keating), Washington, June 15, 1971, 5:13–5:40 p.m.
  • Reuters

  • VIDEO: INDIA: SOVIET AIRCRAFT BROUGHT IN TO ACCELERATE EVACUATION OF EAST PAKISTAN REFUGEES (1971) — Reuters
  • VIDEO: INDIA: ANTI-BUDGET DEMONSTRATION ADDS TO INDIA'S FINANCIAL CRISIS. (1971) — Reuters
  • Times (London)

  • Firing brings new risk of Indo-Pakistan war — Peter Hazelhurst
  • Young flock to join secret army — Reuter
  • Charities hopeful of taking aid into Pakistan — Robert Fisk