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Bangladeshi coup d'état
military coup in Bangladesh
The coup d'état was a military coup by Lt. n Muhammad Ershad, the then-Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh, against PresidentAbdus Sattar.[1] After serving initially as the Chief Martial Law Administrator and installing a civilian president, Justice A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, Ershad assumed presidency in and ruled until
Background
After its independence in , Bangladesh saw a series of military coups, beginning with the assassination of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, , by a group of army officers, who installed Khondaker Mostaq Ahmed as president.[2] The Khondaker Mostaq regime was overthrown on November 3 of the same year by pro-Mujib officers led by Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf and Colonel Shafat Jamil.[3] A counter-coup on November 7 brought army chief Maj. Gen. Ziaur Rahman to power.[4] In , Ziaur Rahman assumed the post of president and handed over the post Biography of william shakespeare!