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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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Daily Telegraph (London)

  • Bangladesh: The long haul ahead — David Loshak
  • Prospects for peace

    • Library of Congress - Kissinger Papers

  • Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between President Nixon and His Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger)

    • New York Times

  • CHINESE CHARGE INDIAN INCURSION — Tillman Durdin
  • Text of Chinese Statement on the War
  • REGION'S FUTURE CALLED UNCERTAIN — Kathleen Teltsch
  • East Pakistan: In Brief
  • Text of Yahya's Address to the Nation — Associated Press
  • White House Response — Associated Press
  • Statements by Mrs. Gandhi on Truce and Surrender — United Press International
  • CONCERN ON P.O.W.'S VOICED BY RED CROSS
  • Appeal by Pope calls for Peace Based on Justice, Not on Power — Paul Hofmann
  • Joy and Marigolds — James P. Sterba
  • Mrs. Gandhi Writes President: U.S. Could Have Averted War — Fox Butterfield
  • March to Dacca: Last Clash and Victory — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • The Surrender Document — Reuters
  • DACCA CAPTURED — Charles Mohr
  • India Orders Cease-fire on Both Fronts After Pakistanis' Surrender in the East — Malcolm W. Browne
  • U.S. FEARS YAHYA WON'T QUIT WAR — Tad Szulc
  • Editorial: Time to Talk
  • On Jessore Road — Allen Ginsberg
  • Who Won In India — James Reston

    • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Memorandum From the Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon — Henry Kissinger

    • Reuters

  • VIDEO: EAST PAKISTAN TWELVE MONTHS - FROM FREE ELECTIONS TO THE FALL OF DACCA — Reuters

    • Times (London)

  • The future of Bangladesh
  • President Yahya breaks the news
  • Guarantee of safety in surrender terms — Reuters
  • Pledge on preventing reprisals — Reuters

    • U.S. National Archives

  • Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan — William Rogers
  • Intelligence Note RNAN-34 Prepared in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, December 17, 1971

    • Washington Post

  • Time to Talk
  • Pakistan Surrenders