Bangladesh Liberation War

The Bangladesh Liberation War (two other names are also used occasionally) refers to an armed conflict between West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) that lasted for roughly nine months in 1971. The war resulted in Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan.

External links

• Banglapedia article on the Liberation war of Bangladesh
• Bangladesh Liberation War. Mujibnagar. Government Documents 1971
• Images of genocide committed by Pakistan Army in Bangladesh _{Graphic images, viewer discretion advised}
• Virtual Bangladesh : History : Holocaust 1971
• Case Study: Genocide in Bangladesh, 1971 from Gendercide.org
• Torture in Bangladesh 1971-2004 (pdf)
• Eyewitness Accounts: Genocide in Bangladesh
• Genocide 1971
• US Department of State on Foreign Relations and South Asia crisis 1969-1976
• The Tilt: The U.S. and the South Asian Crisis of 1971
• The women of 1971. Tales of abuse and rape by the Pakistan Army.
• Eyewitness account of the massacre at Dhaka University
• Mathematics of a Massacre, Abul Kashem
• The complete Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report
• 1971 Massacre in Bangladesh and the Fallacy in the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report, Dr. M.A. Hasan
• Pakistan Army not involved in 1971 Rapes, by Khalid Hasan, Daily Times, June 30, 2005.
• Sheikh Mujib wanted a confederation: US papers, by Anwar Iqbal, Dawn, July 7, 2005
• Page containing copies of the surrender documents
• Video clip of the surrender by Pakistan