Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

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Assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
A memorial portrait at the assassination site
Location	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Date	15 August 1975; 49 years ago (1975-08-15) 4:30 am – 6:10 am (BST)
Target	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family
Attack type	Military coup/Assassination, murder by shooting
Weapons	28 'unarmored' T-54 tanks, mortars, 105 mm howitzer, machine guns, rifles, revolvers and grenades
Deaths	47+ (including Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his family, guards, police, military personnel and several common people)
Injured	48+ (including Mujib's Personal assistant and a domestic worker)
Perpetrators	24 (including Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Taheruddin Thakur and Syed Faruque Rahman)
Assailants	est. A dozen of junior officer of the army and soldiers from single unit of artillery and lancer
Accused	Mostaq, Mahbub and several others (granted immunity) Taheruddin, Wahab Joardar, Hashem, Nazmul and Sharful (acquitted on appeal)
Charges	Conspiracy, murder, concealing evidence
Sentence	Faruque, Rashid, Noor, Huda, Rashed, Pasha, Shahriar, Mohiuddin, A.K.M. Mohiuddin, Dalim, Majed and Moslemuddin: Death by hanging

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, was assassinated along with most of his family members during the early hours of 15 August 1975 by a group of Bangladesh Army personnel who invaded his residence as part of a coup d'état.^[1][2][3] The Minister of Commerce, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, immediately took control and proclaimed himself head of an interim government from 15 August to 6 November 1975; he was in turn succeeded by Chief Justice Abu Sayem.^[3] The assassination marked the first direct military intervention in Bangladesh's civilian administration.^[4] Lawrence Lifschultz characterized this incident as an outcome of the Cold War between the United States-influenced Pakistan and the Soviet Union-influenced India.^[5] 15 August is annually observed as National Mourning Day, a commemorative day in Bangladesh.^[6]