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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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Associated Press

  • VIDEO: INDIAN AND BANGLA FORCES CONTROL DARSANA TOWN — AP

    • Daily Telegraph (London)

  • Long supply line a handicap to East Pakistan — Brig. W. F. K. Thompson

    • Financial Times (London)

  • Mrs. Gandhi’s war

    • Guardian(UK)

  • EDITORIAL: Can anyone promote peace?

    • New York Times

  • The Wringing of Hands — Anthony Lewis
  • GENEVA P.O.W. RULES OBSERVED, INDIA SAYS
  • Police Keep Apart 2 Pakistani Groups Protesting at U.N. — Kathleen Teltsch
  • Pope Fears Involvement Of Other Nations in War
  • India Summons U. S. Envoy — Reuters
  • Two Greek Ships Strafed — Reuters
  • U. S. COMPLAINS TO INDIA ON SHIPS — Benjamin Welles
  • Background of Dispute
  • Plane Reaches Teheran — Associated Press
  • Foreigners Evacuated
  • Pakistanis Warned — Hendrick Smith
  • Soviet and China Accuse Each Other on Fighting — Agence France-Presse
  • Resolutions Submitted to U.N. Council
  • RECOGNITION STEP: Bangla Desh Recognized As Government in Area — Charles Mohr
  • Indian Advance Leaves Bengali Village in Ruins — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • U.N.: Moscow Again Vetoes Truce Call — Henry Tanner
  • Pakistan: 61 Indian Planes Reported Hit — Reuters

    • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Memorandum From Secretary of State Rogers to President Nixon — William Rogers
  • Message From the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United States
  • Conversation Between President Nixon and Secretary of State Rogers, Washington, December 6, 1971, 9:19–9:24 a.m.
  • Conversation Between President Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, December 6, 1971, 6:14–6:38 p.m.
  • Minutes of National Security Council Meeting
  • Letter From President Nixon to Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev — Richard Nixon
  • Minutes of Washington Special Actions Group Meeting
  • Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon — Henry Kissinger

    • Time

  • Hindu and Moslem: The Gospel of Hate
  • INDIA AND PAKISTAN: POISED FOR WAR
  • A letter from the publisher

    • Times (London)

  • Hijacker ‘inspired’ — Richard Scott

    • Washington National Records Center, OSD Files

  • Minutes of Secretary of Defense Laird’s Armed Forces Policy Council Meeting — R. Eugene Livesay