Military coups in Bangladesh
The officers planned to put an end to the socialist one-party state regime of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with a nationalist democratic government led by Khandaker Mushtaque Ahmed.
This was organized by Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, Bir Uttom, a decorated veteran of the Bangladesh war of Independence in 1971.
He put Major General Ziaur Rahman, the Chief of Army Staff and fellow independence War leader, who was not believed to have supported the August coup, under house arrest but did not execute him.
The coup killed Khaled Mosharraf who had removed those involved in the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from power.
Following it, a military junta interim government led by Chief Justice Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem was formed.
The JAL flight force landed in Dhaka international airport in Tejgaon fully armed with Japanese Red army men who took off from Delhi, India.
By 2 October 1977, another revolt erupted, after eleven Air Force officers were murdered by the Red Army men two days before.
Amidst speculation Zia went on tour to Chittagong on May 29, 1981, to help resolve an intra-party political dispute in the regional Bangladesh National Party.
[citation needed] In the early hours of the morning of May 30, he was assassinated by a group of army officers, who also killed six of his bodyguards and two aides.
[4] After the Assassination of Ziaur Rahman on 30 May 1981, the then Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, started to distance himself from the civilian government in place.
Upon Zia's assassination, Ershad ultimately got rid of a major section of Independence War participants from the army, and buried any traces of evidence that could incriminate him.
[citation needed] Lieutenant General Ershad expressed loyalty to the new president Abdus Sattar, who led the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to victory in elections in 1981.
In a bloodless coup on 24 March 1982, Ershad stormed into Bangabhaban and at gunpoint removed President Sattar from office and proclaimed himself Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA), and suspended the constitution.
[7] Lieutenant General Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim staged an abortive coup in 1996 against the caretaker government.
On 19 May 1996, Abdur Rahman Biswas, the President of Bangladesh during a caretaker government, ordered Nasim to force the retirement of two senior army officers.
On noon that day, General Nasim ordered soldiers of Bogra, Jessore and Mymensingh divisions to march towards Dhaka.
The coup ended in 2008 after the military government held a parliamentary election in December 2008 and transfer of power was handed over to the Awami League, which won 230 seats in parliament.
[10][11] The mutiny ended as the mutineers surrendered their arms and released the hostages[12] after a series of discussions and negotiations with the government.
