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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.

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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

  • Pakistan Bastion of Jessore Toppled in a Day — Henry S. Hayward

    • Library of Congress - Kissinger Papers

  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) and the Minister of the Soviet Embassy (Vorontsov)

    • Life

  • In Pakistan Now it's war
  • Hunting for the Mukti Bahini behind the lines — John Saar

    • New Statesman

  • Why we should back India — Woodrow Wyatt

    • New York Times

  • Pakistan Says She Is Checking Reports of Soviet Fliers in India — Henry Kamm
  • Editorial: The Innocent Victims...
  • Neutral Zone in Dacca
  • 60 Civilians Are Reported Dead In Indian Air Attack on Karachi — Reuters
  • Big-Power Conflict Brings U.N. Impasse — Henry Tanner
  • Chhamb Battle Continues — Reuters
  • PAKISTAN ASSERTS DEFENSE HARDENS
  • Pakistani Jets Bring the War And Death to Indian Village — Fox Butterfield
  • For the West Pakistanis, War Is Closer to Home — Malcolm W. Browne
  • Moslem World League Asks 'Holy War' Against India — Agence France-Presse
  • U.S. BUSINESS UNIT IN INDIA BACKS HER
  • PAKISTAN ACCEPTS TRUCE CALL OF U.N. — Eric Pace
  • BOMBS RAZE AN ORPHANAGE THERE — United Press International
  • INDIA REPORTS FOE IN ROUT IN EAST AS ENCIRCLEMENT OF DACCA GAINS — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • — Reuters

    • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Conversation Between President Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, December 10, 1971, 12:47–1:01 p.m.
  • Conversation Between President Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, December 10, 1971, 10:51–11:12 a.m.
  • Memorandum of Conversation between Kissinger and the Chinese Ambassador
  • Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) — Alexander Haig
  • Backchannel Message From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to the Ambassador to Pakistan (Farland) — Henry Kissinger
  • Backchannel Message From the Ambassador to Pakistan (Farland) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) — Joseph Farland
  • Letter From President Nixon to Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev — Richard Nixon
  • Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon — Henry Kissinger
  • Backchannel Message From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to the Ambassador to Pakistan (Farland)
  • Memorandum of Conversation

    • Novosti Press Agency (APN)

  • REMOVE THE SOURCE OF CRISIS IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT — I. PLYSHEVSKY

    • The Harvard Crimson

  • Pakistanis Retreat to Dacca

    • U.S. National Archives

  • Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan — John Irwin
  • Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India — John Irwin

    • Washington Star/Evening Star

  • Jubilant Bengalis Celebrate Freedom — Keyes Beech