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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Far Eastern Economic Review

  • The Cost of Repression
  • Senate Unit Asks Pakistan Arms Cutoff
  • New York Times

  • Letter: U.S. Aid for Pakistan — HAMID JALAL Press Counselor, Pakistan Mission to the United Nations
  • Letter to the Editor — A. K. AZIZ
  • Indians Protest U.S. Arms
  • New Yorker

  • The Talk of the Town; Notes and Comment
  • Nixon Presidential Materials

  • Memorandum From Harold Saunders and Samuel Hoskinson of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) — Saunders & Hoskinson
  • Reuters

  • VIDEO: EAST PAKISTAN REFUGEE CAMP NEAR DACCA CARES FOR BIHARI WOMEN AND CHILDREN; PARTY-LEADER NURUL AMIN COMMENTS ON BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT YAHYA KHAN. — Reuters
  • VIDEO: UK: BRITISH MPS TELL OF SCENES OF HORROR IN EAST PAKISTAN (1971) — Reuters
  • VIDEO: PAKISTAN: ARMY PATROL VISITS SHELLED VILLAGE ON INDIAN BORDER (1971) — Reuters
  • Times (London)

  • British planters return to E Pakistan estates — Reuter
  • President Yahya dashes hopes of reconciliation — Michael Hornsby
  • Letters: