Bangladesh · March–December 1971
The GenocideThat Was Allowedto Happen
Three million killed. Two hundred thousand women violated. The world's most powerful governments watched — and chose silence. The cables prove it.
Forgetting is a second crime.
This archive refuses both.
DigTruth 1971 is an independent documentation initiative built to preserve and make accessible the evidence of the Bangladesh genocide — the diplomatic cables, survivor testimonies, legal proceedings, and named individuals that powerful governments tried to suppress, declassify quietly, or simply wait for the world to forget.
Primary Sources. Declassified U.S. State Department cables, CIA intelligence estimates, and diplomatic communications — including the Blood Telegram — released under the Freedom of Information Act and archived here as searchable, citable evidence.
Accountability. Drawn from International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh verdicts, academic records, and declassified communications — the archive names those who ordered, enabled, or chose to look away, and those who risked everything to speak the truth.
Legal Pursuit. Active litigation in international and domestic courts continues. The archive tracks these proceedings and supports the legal work of researchers, advocates, and survivors seeking formal recognition.
Living Memory. Named victims — children, intellectuals, war heroines, survivors — are documented here so that numbers become people. The archive accepts verified testimony and invites those who carry evidence to contribute.
The Genocide
Nine months. The chronology, the mechanics, and what the world knew and chose to ignore.
→Declassified Cables
Diplomatic communications from the U.S. State Department and the Nixon White House, now declassified.
→Accountability Register
Those who risked everything to speak. Those who chose power over humanity. Named plainly.
→Submit Testimony
If you carry testimony, documentation, or evidence, the archive wants to hear from you.
Sends an email to archive@digtruth1971.org
→“They did not disappear.
They were erased — by bullets, by silence, and by the indifference
of those with the power to act.”
Dedicated to the three million · 1971