Sheikh Mujeeb's Assassination

najeebrb · #1 Thursday, July 08, 2010

i would like to know about the sheikh mujeeb's assassination, the history reveals that he was killed by the member of Bangla desh Army,
What was the ideology of his assassin?? the people who killed him?

Nek Muhammad · #2 Thursday, July 08, 2010

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Originally Posted by najeebrb

i would like to know about the sheikh mujeeb's assassination, the history reveals that he was killed by the member of Bangla desh Army,
What was the ideology of his assassin?? the people who killed him?

The assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman took place in the early hours of August 15, 1975, when a group of junior army officers invaded Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's residence with tanks. At the time of his assassination, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was serving as the president of Bangladesh.

Background:
Following the independence of Bangladesh in December 1971, Mujib was released from custody in Pakistan. He became the Prime Minister and later President of the newly formed state. He soon established a system of one-party rule, banned all the newspapers except for government publications, and declared himself life-long president through a constitutional amendment in early 1975. His declaration of one party rule was opposed by many political opponents. Corruption started to spread during those initial years of Bangladeshi independence. Rahman had to face the disastrous aftermath of the 1971 war.
The Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini was a highly controversial political militia force formed in 1975 with a status of an elite force which was loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. It was assigned an apparent functionality of recovering arms from the civilians but actually acted as an armament to protect the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-regime from military coup and other armed challenges. Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini is considered one of the main ingredients of discontent among the army and the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as well.

Conspirators

Syed Faruque Rahman, Abdur Rashid, Sharful Haque Dalim, Mohuiddin A.K.M. Ahmed, all majors in the Bangladesh Army and veterans of Mukti Bahini, hatched a conspiracy, the standard account of which is chronicled in Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood by Anthony Mascarenhas. Khondaker Mostaq Ahmed, an Awami League cabinet minister under Mujib rule, agreed to take over the Presidency. Journalist Lawrence Lifschultz paints an alternative picture of the conspiracy, implicating Mustaque and the CIA as participants. It is alleged that the chief of the army General Shafiullah and defence intelligence were unaware of the conspiracy. However, Mujib relied more on Rakshi Bahini, a militia, rather than the army, for his ultimate security.

Events
In the early morning of August 15, 1975, the conspirators were divided into three groups. One group attacked Mujib's house in road number 32, Dhanmondi Residential Area, Dhaka.
Mujib was killed on the stairs, and all the members of his family were also killed except for his two daughters, who were in West Germany at the time. Two other groups of soldiers killed Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni, Mujib's nephew and influential leader of the Awami League, and Abdur Rab Serniabat, Mujib's brother-in-law, and a minister of the Government. Three months later, four major leaders of the Awami League, Tajuddin Ahmed, Mansur Ali, Syed Nazrul Islam and A H M Kamruzzaman were arrested and jailed (they would later be murdered in jail on November 4, 1975).

Aftermath of assassination
Khondaker Mustaq Ahmed assumed the presidency and the participating army officers became the de facto leaders of the country. They were later toppled by yet another coup led by General Khaled Mosharraf on November 3, 1975. Mosharraf himself was killed in a counter coup four days later on November 7, which installed General Ziaur Rahman in power. In the meantime Faruque Rahman, Rashid, and the other army officers had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. They were exiled to Libya and other countries, and were given several diplomatic posts in Bangladeshi missions abroad. Faruque later returned and founded the Bangladesh Freedom Party.

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