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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:INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL NIAZI IN DACCA (DHAKA) — AP

    • Christian Science Monitor

  • Retribution Nightmare?: What Lies Ahead for Bangla Desh... — Bertram B. Johansson
  • Bangla Desh - Birth of a Nation — Henry S. Hayward

    • Nation

  • Editorials: The Leverage Fallacy

    • New York Times

  • Bhutto Vows Fight to End In Talk to Pakistanis Here
  • To See Ourselves... — Anthony Lewis
  • SOVIET AID TO INDIA ASSAILED BY PEKING
  • Talks in Moscow — Reuters
  • High Soviet Official Discusses Bangla Desh With Mrs. Gandhi — Reuters
  • Officers in Dacca Think Indians Will Reach the City in 48 Hours
  • Pakistan Cites Indian Death Threat at Comilla — Malcolm W. Browne
  • Pakistani Forces Take Ghost Town in Kashmir — Henry Kamm
  • India Denies Pakistan Land Is Sought
  • Foreign Evacuees Tell of Bengalis' Flight From Dacca as Indian Troops Advance — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • Carrier Leaves Vietnam, May Sail to Dacca Area — Craig R. Whitney
  • U.S. CALLS ON U.N. TO ACT — Henry Tanner
  • DRIVE IS RESUMED — Charles Mohr
  • U.S. Says Soviet Moves Vessels to Indian Ocean — Benjamin Welles

    • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Central Intelligence Agency Intelligence Information Cable TDCS–314/13308–71, Washington, December 13, 1971
  • Message From the Soviet Leadership to President Nixon
  • Telegram From the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to the Presidentʼs Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig) — Henry Kissinger
  • Message From the Soviet Leadership to President Nixon
  • Memorandum From the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon — Henry Kissinger
  • Backchannel Message From the Presidentʼs Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Haig) to the Ambassador to Pakistan (Farland)1 — Alexander Haig

    • Reuters

  • VIDEO: EAST PAKISTAN: ACTING PRESIDENT OF PROVISIONAL BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT CHEERED ON ARRIVAL IN JESSORE — Reuters

    • Soviet Review

  • FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLES OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT

    • Time

  • INDIA AND PAKISTAN: OVER THE EDGE

    • Times (London)

  • China s attitude to the Indo-Pakistan conflict — Richard Harris
  • Is there a way to peace?

    • U.S. National Archives

  • Telegram 11295 from the Embassy in the United Kingdom to the Department of State, December 13, 1971, 0211Z