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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Baltimore Sun

  • Troops Take Over — John E. Woodruff
  • New York Times

  • Deaths Put at 10,000--Radio says Army is in Control
  • East Pakistani Group in U.S. Urges Nixon to Intervene
  • Pakistanis March at U.N.
  • U.S. Consulate Reports 'All is Quiet' in Dacca
  • Suppression' in Pakistan Deplored by Mrs. Gandhi — Reuters
  • Pakistan Protests to India
  • Army Expels 35 Foreign Newsmen From Pakistan — Grace Lichtenstein
  • Pakistani Protest Reported
  • Pakistan Divided
  • Pakistan: Perhaps It Was an Impossible Dream After All — Phillips Talbot
  • Heavy Fighting, Raids Reported in East Pakistan — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Memorandum From Samuel Hoskinson of the National Security Council Staff to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) — Samuel Hoskinson
  • Observer (London)

  • How Mujibur turned into Bengal’s hero — Cyril Dunn
  • EDITORIAL: No unity by compulsion
  • Sheikh calls for help — Our Foreign Staff
  • Russia may recognise Bangladesh — Dev Murarka
  • Reuters

  • VIDEO: INDIA: ANTI-WEST PAKISTAN DEMONSTRATION. (1971) — Reuters
  • VIDEO: WEST PAKISTAN: PEOPLE'S PARTY LEADER ALI BHUTTO SAYS THAT PAKISTAN HAS BEEN SAVED (1971) — Reuters
  • Times (London)

  • The second flood of East Pakistan
  • EDITORIAL: Pakistan: A time to speak out
  • Big guns blast unarmed Bengalis — Sydney H. Schanberg
  • U.S. National Archives

  • Telegram 959 From the Consulate General in Dacca to the Department of State, March 28, 1971, 0540Z — Archer Blood
  • Washington Post

  • AD: An Appeal to the President of Pakistan