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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Baltimore Sun

  • United States Called Ready to Help India Move Refugees. Said To Be Looking Into Airlift for Relief Of Crowded Areas
  • Christian Science Monitor

  • Pakistan Refugees Flood India — Abu Abraham
  • New York Times

  • U.S. Reported to Plan New Aid To Pakistani Refugees in India — Benjamin Welles
  • Cholera Deaths Reported
  • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Memorandum of Conversation between Keating, Kissinger and Saunders
  • Reuters

  • VIDEO: INDIA: REFUGEES FROM EAST PAKISTAN VACCINATED AS CHOLERA SWEEPS REFUGEE CAMPS — Reuters
  • Times (London)

  • Cholera kills 10 an hour in W Bengal camps — Peter Hazelhurst