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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The latest update was on: 2024-06-16 21:38:19 GMT

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Daily Al Madina (Jeddah)  

  • EDITORIAL : Where is war? — Adnan Kamel Salah
  • Hindustan Times (New Delhi)

  • How successful are the guerrillas? — Maj.-Gen. D.K. Palit (Retd).
  • New York Times

  • Refugee Children in India: ‘Thousands’ Die — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • PAKISTAN AT U.N. ASKS INDIA TALKS — Tad Szulc
  • Bhutto Assails Rule By Pakistani Army, Asks End to 'Terror'
  • Pope Asks Refugee Relief — United Press International
  • Cholera in India Is Fatal To 5,805 Bengali Refugees — United Press International
  • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • SUBJECT South Asian Relief — Henry Kissinger
  • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Conversation Among President Nixon, the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), British Foreign Secretary Douglas-Home, and the British Ambassador to the United States (Cromer), Washington, September 30, 1971, 4:10-5:31 p.m.
  • Times (London)

  • Mrs Gandhi and Soviet leaders fail to agree — David Bonavia
  • Editorial: A POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR EAST BENGAL
  • Washington Star/Evening Star

  • Pakistani chaos edges India nearer to war — Crosby S. Noyes