Tag: Ziaur Rahman

  • WikiLeaks: Zia, Farooq, Rashid sought US military assistance

    After the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975, then chief of army Ziaur Rahman sought military support from the US through its embassy in Dhaka to what he said thwart India-backed intervention of miscreants in Bangladesh. Then ambassador to Dhaka Davis Eugene Boster wrote to Washington about it after two more…

  • Bangladesh: November 7, 1975 events, through WikiLeaks

    * Troops loyal to ousted chief of army staff Maj Gen Ziaur Rahman moved against his successor Maj Gen Khalid Mosharraf around 1am. There was considerable gunfire, punctuated by mortar blasts, at the Dhaka cantonment as the night passed. Shortly before 4am Radio Bangladesh announced that Zia had been named chief martial law administrator, thus…

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