"[4] In 2009, after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came to power, the BDR Mutiny by border-security soldiers in Pilkhana in Dhaka led to 56 officers being killed.
Some 800 Paramilitary personnel were charged for their involvement in the mutiny, and the crisis frayed ties between the civilian administration and elements of the military establishment[citation needed].
[5] The Bangladesh Army reported a failed coup d'état which was supposed to take place in January 2012 by rogue military officers and expatriates in December 2011.
Azam, who opposed the independence of Bangladesh during and after the 1971 war, is alleged to have led the Razakar and Al-Badr formations that resisted the India-trained Mukti Bahini.
A slew of arrests had taken place silently in Bangladesh through December, prompting Khaleda Zia the former Prime Minister to allege that army officers were becoming victims of "sudden disappearance".
Retired Major General Sayed Mohammad Ibrahim, a defense analyst, said the country and its democratic structures were reasonably immune to interference.