Plot
Holding the rank of Major, Rahman was the lead organiser of a group of junior officers who were disenchanted with the rule of Bangladesh's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The plotters accused Sheikh Mujib of corruption, nepotism and ruling as a dictator, and criticised his pro-India and pro-Soviet stance in foreign affairs. Supported covertly by senior cabinet minister Khondaker Mushtaque Ahmed, Rahman led an attack on Mujib's residence, killing him and his entire family, with the exception of two of Mujib's daughters, Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana. Immediately after the killing, the officers installed Khondaker Mushtaque Ahmed as the new president of Bangladesh.
Please also refer to the excerpt from Bangladesh: A Legacy Of Blood by Anthony Mascarenhas, which was quite an in-depth account at the time and of the time.
First published in 1986 and reprinted in 2006 by Hodder and Stoughton Educational, Bungay, Suffolk.
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