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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Guardian(UK)

  • Pressure put on Pakistan by threat to withdraw aid — Martin Woollacott
  • Le Monde (Weekly English Edition)

  • BACKDROP TO THE BENGAL TRAGEDY -- Slow Decline Of A Once Flourishing Land — Gilbert Etienne
  • New York Times

  • Attack In Dacca on Aid Officials Reported — Malcolm W. Browne
  • Bengalis Ride a Refugee Train of Despair — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • Thant Appeals for Aid
  • Editorial: Aid for Pakistan?
  • Reuters

  • VIDEO: INDIA: NEW INFLUX OF REFUGEES FROM EAST PAKISTAN — Reuters
  • Times (London)

  • Indian criticism of relief puzzles UN men
  • Oxfam fear of typhoid in refugee camps
  • Diplomats’ warnings that went unheeded — Peter Hazelhurst
  • Threat to end aid to Pakistan — Michael Hornsby
  • India takes arms from guerrillas as precaution — Peter Hazelhurst
  • U.K. National Archives

  • Excerpt from the Records of the UK Cabinet CAB 128/49/32.
  • U.S. National Archives

  • Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India
  • Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India — William Rogers
  • Washington Post

  • Indian Official Carries Plea for U.S. Help
  • E. Pakistani Refugee Flow Increases Again — Lee Lescaze