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 TROOPS ADVANCE TOWARDS KHULNA — AP
  • VIDEO: INDIAN TROOPS ADVANCE ON WEST PAKISTAN TOWNS — AP
  • VIDEO: INDIANS BOMB DACCA — AP
  • 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)
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) and the Minister of the Soviet Embassy (Vorontsov) - 2
  • New York Times

  • White House Is Planning a Postwar Relief Program — Benjamin Welles
  • The Big Powers: They Didn't Want This Tragic War — Bernard Gwertzman
  • Bangla Desh: The Crucial Fact Is That the Pakistanis Are Hated — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • India vs. Pakistan: 'Let Me Get the Hell Out Of Here!'
  • Editorial: Stricken Subcontinent
  • ' Mister Comrade, To You!'
  • McGovern Says India Was Justified in Action — United Press International
  • India Says Planes Find Orphanage Undamaged — United Press International
  • High-Level Soviet Delegation Leaves for Talks in New Delhi — Hedrick Smith
  • BHUTTO SHUNNING CONTACTS AT U.N. — Henry Tanner
  • U.N. Observer Unit in Kashmir, Despite Combat, Reports Daily — Sam Pope Brewer
  • Battle at Kashmir River Said to Leave 900 Dead — Fox Butterfield
  • General Bars Surrender
  • Evacuation From Karachi — Reuters
  • Earlier Flights Barred — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • British Planes Begin Evacuating Foreigners From Dacca After Pakistan Lifts Bar — United Press International
  • INDIANS CLOSER TO DACCA, LAND PARATROOP BRIGADE; REPORT 3,000 PRISONERS — Charles Mohr
  • Military Situation in East Termed 'Grim' by Pakistan — Malcolm W. Browne
  • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Conversation Among President Nixon, his Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), and his Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig), Washington, December 12, 1971, 8:45–9:42 a.m.
  • Conversation Between President Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, December 12, 1971, 11:04–11:14 a.m.
  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between the President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig) and the Minister of the Soviet Embassy (Vorontsov)
  • Conversation Between President Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, December 12, 1971, 10:27–10:37 a.m.
  • Message From President Nixon to Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev
  • Memorandum of Conversation
  • Message From the Soviet Leadership to President Nixon
  • Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon — Henry Kissinger
  • Times (London)

  • The war of the 700 million — Murray Sayle, Phillip Jacobson, Saeed Naqvi, Henry Brandon, Nicholas Carroll
  • U.S. National Archives

  • Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State (Eliot) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs
  • Telegram 223704 From the Department of State to the Embassy in India, December 12, 1971, 2250Z — John Irwin
  • Telegram 12414 From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State, December 12, 1971, 0825Z — Joseph Farland
  • Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State — George Bush
  • Washington Post

  • Jessore Cheers Arrival of Bangla Desh Leaders — Laurence Stern
  • Washington Star/Evening Star

  • Mrs. Gandhi's Curious Stand on Bangla Desh — Crosby S. Noyes