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| Assassination of Ziaur Rahman | |
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 Old Circuit House Building, Chittagong | |
| Location | Circuit House, Chittagong, Bangladesh |
| Date | 30 May 1981 4:00 a.m. (BST) |
| Target | Ziaur Rahman |
Attack type | Military coup |
| Weapons | 11 sub machine guns 3 rocket launchers 3 grenade firing rifles |
| Deaths | 8 person;
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| Injured | 16 person (including Guards) |
| Assailants | 16 army officers with a few soldiers
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| Motive | Social injustices, corruption, political and economic rot during Ziaur Rahman regime[1] |
Ziaur Rahman, the sixth president of Bangladesh, was assassinated by a faction of officers of Bangladesh Army, on 30 May 1981, in the southeastern port city of Chittagong.[2] Rahman went to Chittagong to arbitrate in a clash between the local leaders of his political party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. On the night of 30 May, a group of officers commandeered the Chittagong Circuit House, a government residence where Rahman was staying, shooting him and several others.[3]
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Mascarenhas p 157was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Bangladesh Reports Death of President Ziaur Rahman". The New York Times. 30 May 1981.
- ^ Rangan, Kasturi (31 May 1981). "Bangladesh Leader is Shot and Killed in a Coup Attempt". The New York Times.