Resources

Literature

• 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh by Srinath Raghavan
• Women, War, & the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia
• Freedom At Midnight by Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
• The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation by Scott Carney & Jason Miklian
• Jallad: Death Squads & State Terror in South Asia by Tasneem Khalil
• The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger & a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
• Witness to surrender by Siddique Salik

Media

• BBC "The Bengali Language Movement"
• The Smithsonian "The Genocide the U.S. Can’t Remember, But Bangladesh Can’t Forget"
• The Concert for Bangladesh, August 1, 1971
• BBC Bangladesh war: The article that changed history
• March 7, 1971 speech by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

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