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News Headings Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with most of his family was assassinated on August 15, 1975 in a military coup. "The 15 have been found guilty of being directly involved in the death of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family, and have been sentenced to death by firing squad," the Judge said. For more than 21 years, since Rahman’s assassination, no action was taken against the plotters until Sheikh Hasina led the Awami League to power in the 1996 elections. www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98nov09/head.htm   (811 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Mujibur Rahman The assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the morning of August 15 brought to a swift and violent end the hopes he had for his new nation when he assumed leadership shortly after its declaration of independence in December 1971. Rahman, Mujibur, popularly known as Sheikh Mujib (1920-1975), founding father of Bangladesh and its first prime minister (1972-1975). He fought in the Pakistani civil war (1971) in which Bangladesh gained its independence,... ca.encarta.msn.com /Mujibur_Rahman.html   (109 words)

15240140.htm THE assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marked the successful culmination of a conspiracy which was essentially hatched in the days of the Bengali struggle for liberation from Pakistan in 1971. The argument was simple enough: without a trial of the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh could not expect to be governed by democracy, for in the end democracy is based on the very broad concept of the rule of law. The August 1975 assassinations, which were followed three months later by the murder in prison of four pre-eminent leaders of the Bangladesh independence movement and members of the Mujibur Rahman Government, were fundamentally a triumph of counter-revolution. www.flonnet.com /fl1524/15240140.htm   (1033 words)

Daily Excelsior... World Bangladesh today paid glowing tributes to the country’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of his 25th death anniversary even as Premier Sheikh Hasina warned the nation against "conspiracy" by her rivals to protect the 1975 coup plotters. A court on November 8, 1998 sentenced to death 15 former Army officers for Rahman’s assassination. Hasina placed wreaths at the graves of other members of her family including her 10-year-old brother Sheikh Russel, also killed in the August 15, 1975 military coup, before flying to Tungipara where her father is buried. www.dailyexcelsior.com /00aug16/inter.htm   (2948 words)

Mujibur case: Death penalty for 3 B'desh ex-soldiers - The Economic Times DHAKA: Three former army officers were today sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court for murdering four national leaders inside the Dhaka Central Jail after the assassination of the country’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a coup in 1975, bringing to end nearly three-decade-old case. Sheikh mujibur rahman, father of sheikh hasina, and most of his family members were killed in the first coup in august 1975. The judge ordered three junior military officers to be hanged, 12 people were sentenced to life imprisonment and five others, including four prominent politicians — former ministers Taheruddin Thakur, Obaidur Rahman, a ruling party MP, Shah Moazzem Hossain and Nurul Islam Monjur — were acquitted. economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/893652.cms   (2948 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rahman Mujibur The assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the morning of August 15 brought to a swift and violent end the hopes he had for his new nation when he assumed leadership shortly after its declaration of independence in December 1971. Rahman, Mujibur, popularly known as Sheikh Mujib (1920-1975), founding father of Bangladesh and its first prime minister (1972-1975). MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rahman Mujibur encarta.msn.com /Rahman_Mujibur.html   (2948 words)

Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia Hasina is the only surviving daughter of the father of nation and first prime minister, Bangbandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who had led the movement for independence from Pakistan in 1971 and was killed along with all members of his family in August 1975 by army officers who are yet to be punished. Late General Zia-ur Rahman came to power a few months after Mujibur's assassination, and after his own assassination in May 1981, his wife, the current prime minister, Begum Khaleda Zia, has been alternating in power with Sheikh Hasina. Sheikh Hasina herself has blamed the government itself for the assassination attempt. www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FH28Df06.html   (1375 words)

rediff.com: Bangladesh president resigns While BNP says Ziaur Rahman, then a major in the Pakistani army, declared independence on March 26, 1971, the Awami League says Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Sheikh Hasina, declared independence. Former military dictator and head of the opposition Jatiya Party H M Ershad, who grabbed power soon after Ziaur Rahman's assassination, termed Chowdhury's removal as 'exceptional' in the country's political history. BNP MPs had attacked Chowdhury for not visiting the grave of Ziaur Rahman, who ruled Bangladesh for seven years after seizing power in 1975, on his death anniversary on May 30 last. www.rediff.com /news/2002/jun/21bang1.htm   (406 words)

Timeline Bangladesh 1998 Nov 8, A judge convicted and sentenced to death 15 former military commanders for the 1975 assassination of prime minister Sheik Mujibur Rahman. 1971 Mar 21, Sheik Mujibur Rahman (Mujeeb-ur Rehman) declared East Pakistan independent of Pakistan; Pakistani Pres. The Nationalist Party of Khaleda Zia, widow of General Ziaur Rahman won the elections and moved the country away from a socialist economic system begun by Sheik Mujibur. timelines.ws /countries/BANGLADESH.HTML   (406 words)

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion Hasina and other leaders of her party, the Bangladesh Awami League (AL), were the targets of the worst-ever assassination attempt in Bangladesh since August 15, 1975, when her father, “Bangabandhu” Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 16 others of his family were killed in his house in an army coup. Hasina may have survived yet another assassination attempt — the seventh since she returned home from exile in 1981. Worse, Hasina and other victims of this terror accuse the government of Zia of being hand-in-glove with many of the fundamentalist groups. www.telegraphindia.com /1040829/asp/opinion/story_3689590.asp   (1584 words)

Bangladesh: Trial of alleged killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members - Amnesty International On 15 August 1975 the then president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - father of the current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed - and most of his family members including children were killed in their family home by a group of army officers during a coup. General, later President, Ziaur Rahman (November 1976 - May 1981) enacted the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution which legalized all arbitrary measures taken by the government between 15 August 1975 (the date of the killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members) and 9 April 1979 (the date martial law was lifted). Her lawyer argued that the weapons recovered had legally-obtained licenses, that she had not been involved in the assassination at all, and that she was being "held as a hostage by the government for securing the surrender of her husband" who is believed to have gone abroad. www.web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGASA130021997?open&of=ENG-391   (3184 words)

Editorial And that was how you had as disparate individuals as Moulana Bhashani, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Shah Azizur Rahman, Hamidul Haq Chowdhury, Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, Moshiur Rahman Jadu Mia and Moulvi Farid Ahmed interacting in a mutually respectful way with one another. He had a capacity for humour that has not quite been rivalled in this part of the world since his assassination. Enthusiasts for Pakistan in the angry summer of 1947 were offended not at all by the various parodies their political slogans were being reduced to (note ‘sar pe topi munh me paan larhke lenge Pakistan). www.newagebd.com /2005/apr/12/edit.html   (3184 words)

Battle of the heirs NEARLY 27 years after his assassination, the name of the Father of the Nation of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is yet again in the thick of a political battle, this time over the removal of his portraits from government offices by the recently installed government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. The Khaleda Zia government's allergy to portraits of Mujibur Rahman, popularly known as "Bangabandhu" (the friend of Bengal), became obvious soon after the electoral victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party alliance. The Khaleda Zia government and the Awami League-led Opposition in Bangladesh lock horns over the former's attempt to efface the role of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the Father of the Nation. www.hindu.com /fline/fl1908/19080600.htm   (1733 words)

The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 411 Tajuddin Ahmad will be best remembered and revered for playing a pioneer role against the then West Pakistan by forming the first government of Bangladesh at the most critical moment of the Bangalee nation in 1971 in absence of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. "Tajuddin Ahmad governed the country successfully in the toughest time of the country in 1971 in absence of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman," AL Acting President Zillur Rahman said, adding that Tajuddin's great contributions will always show the countrymen ways to emancipation. After the cruel assassination of Bangabandhu along with his family members in 1975, Tajuddin Ahmad was kept in house arrest and later shifted to jail. www.thedailystar.net /2005/07/23/d5072301117.htm   (479 words)

Polity IV Country Report 2003: Bangladesh Khaleda Zia is the widow of General Zia ur-Rahman (leader of Bangladesh from 1975 until his assassination in 1981) while Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (former prime minister and president of the country who was assassinated by General Zia in 1975). In 1990 Begum Khaleda Zia ur-Rahman, leader of the Bengal Nationalist Party (BNP), and Sheikh Hasina Wajid, head of the Bengladesh Awami League (AL), joined together to force the resignation of President Ershand and restore democracy to Bangladesh after 15-years of military rule. Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was sworn in on 10 October 2001 amidst unsubstantiated AL claims of electoral fraud. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Bng1.htm   (1021 words)

nextislamistrevolution.doc The two leading parties are led by women: the B.N.P. by the current prime minister, Khaleda Zia, widow of the party's murdered founder; the Awami League by Zia's predecessor as prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, herself the daughter of the assassinated founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. When Sheikh Hasina very narrowly escaped assassination last August, B.N.P. activists all but accused her of staging the attack in order to acquire political advantage. Zia and Sheikh Hasina, as she is known, have a legendary antipathy toward each other. home.att.net /~dawsonprof/nextislamistrevolution.doc   (1021 words)

Polity IV Country Report 2003: Bangladesh Khaleda Zia is the widow of General Zia ur-Rahman (leader of Bangladesh from 1975 until his assassination in 1981) while Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (former prime minister and president of the country who was assassinated by General Zia in 1975). Despite the return of multiparty electoral politics to Bangladesh, the competition between these rival patronage networks, institutionalized in the form of the BNP and the AL, continues to produce chronic social instability and political violence. Helping to solidify executive power is a law that stipulates that any member of Parliament who votes against their respective party automatically loses their seats. www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Bng1.htm   (1021 words)

metropolitan After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on August 15, 1975, Samad was arrested, along with four senior leaders of the Awami League who were later killed in jail in November of the year. Samad was appointed foreign minister of the Sheikh Hasina government in 1996. Samad, during the war of independence in 1971, was a special envoy of the Bangladesh government and travelled across the world, mobilising world opinion in favour of the war. www.weeklyholiday.net /2005/290405/met.html   (1021 words)

Indiainfo.com -> News -> South Asia -> Bangla president, Hasina pay homage to four leaders Observed as "Jail Killing Day", the four leaders -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, A. Quamruzzaman and Captain Mansoor Ali -- were killed inside the jail on this day in 1975, less than three months after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of the country on August 15, 1975. Dhaka: Bangladesh President Shahabuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed Friday led the nation in paying homage to four of the country's national leaders on the 25th anniversary of their killing inside the high security Dhaka Central Jail. newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/11/04/04pay.html   (1021 words)

04pay.html Observed as "Jail Killing Day", the four leaders -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, A. Quamruzzaman and Captain Mansoor Ali -- were killed inside the jail on this day in 1975, less than three months after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of the country on August 15, 1975. Dhaka: Bangladesh President Shahabuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed Friday led the nation in paying homage to four of the country's national leaders on the 25th anniversary of their killing inside the high security Dhaka Central Jail. "Such brutal killings in safe custody inside jail is a shameful chapter in the history of our national life and a deplorable incident in the history of human civilization as a whole," Ahmed said. newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/11/04/04pay.html   (1021 words)

AI REPORT 1997: Bangladesh (the People's Republic of) In November, parliament repealed the Indemnity Ordinance, which had granted immunity from prosecution for those involved in the assassination of the first President of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and members of his family, in a military coup in August 1975. The Awami League won the majority of seats and its leader, Sheikh Hasina Wajid, was sworn in as Prime Minister. Former Chief Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed was elected President. www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar97/ASA13.htm   (1021 words)

tribuneindia... World DHAKA, Nov 9 — Thailand’s prompt extradition of a former army officer to face execution raised hopes today of bringing home more fugitives sentenced to death for plotting the assassination of the country’s first Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. As leader of the expedition in 1953, Hunt decided it was his responsibility to remain at base camp while Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed the last 400 feet to the summit. He was knighted in 1953 and elevated in 1966 to the House of Lords, where he took the title of Baron Hunt of Llanfairwaterdine. www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98nov10/world.htm   (3144 words)

Begum Khaleda’s Compulsions Although ruthless with his opponents, many people still remember Zia as Bangladesh's best leader since independence, who stabilized the government and put the country back on its rails when it was racked by a series of coups and counter coups that followed the assassination of the founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Zia, who had impeccable credentials as a nationalist, had exhibited a single mindedness of purpose to pursue a clear vision during his rule both as head of an army that had seized power and later as an elected president. Zia was a dapper and taciturn professional soldier. www.saag.org /papers14/paper1362.html   (2199 words)

The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 105 The killing seen as a desperate bid of power usurpers came 79 days after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family on August 15, 1975 that numbed the nation. Syed Nazrul Islam, acting president of Bangladesh government in exile, Tajuddin Ahmed, prime minister, M Mansur Ali, finance minister, and AHM Qamaruzzaman, minister of home affairs, relief and rehabilitation, during the Liberation War were killed inside Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975. The trial was halted for 10 months after Syeda Zohra Tajuddin, wife of slain prime minister and one of the high-profile victims of the jail killing Tajuddin Ahmed, filed a petition on January 26 last year seeking trial in the High Court. www.thedailystar.net /2004/09/07/d4090701011.htm   (2199 words)

The Hindu : 3 acquitted in Mujib murder case The third High Court judge has confirmed the death sentences on three more convicts and acquitted three others while delivering the verdict on the split judgment of a previous bench on the fate of six of the 15 convicts in the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination trial. Justice Haque upheld the 1998 trial court verdict, which sentenced all the 15 to death after five months of death reference and appeal hearing, which started on June 28 last year. Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim sentenced former Lieutenant Colonel, Muhiuddin Ahmed, former Risaldar, Moslehuddin, and former Captain, Majed, to death while acquitting former Major, Ahmed Sharful Hossain, former Captain, Nazmul Hossain Ansar, and former Captain, Kismat Hashem. www.hindu.com /2001/05/01/stories/03010006.htm   (570 words)

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