Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

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Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
A memorial portrait at the assassination site
Location	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Date	15 August 1975; 48 years ago (1975-08-15) 4:30 am – 6:10 am (BST)
Target	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family
Attack type	Military coup
Weapons	28 'unarmored' T-54 tanks, mortars, 105 mm howitzer, machine guns, rifles, revolvers and grenades
Deaths	est. 36 (including Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his wife, brother, 3 sons and 2 daughters-in-law)
Injured	est. 48 (including Mujib's Personal assistant and a domestic worker)
Assailants	est. A dozen of junior ranked army officers and 2 Unit of common soldiers
Accused	24 (including Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Taheruddin Thakur and Mahbub Alam Chashi)
Convicted	12 (Syed Faruque Rahman, Khandaker Abdur Rashid, S.H.M.B Noor Chowdhury, Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Rashed Chowdhury, Abdul Aziz Pasha, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed, A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Shariful Haque Dalim, Abdul Majed and Moslemuddin) Others: acquitted
Charges	Conspiracy, murder, concealing evidence
Sentence	Convicts: Death by hanging

The first president of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and most of his family were killed during the early hours of 15 August 1975 by a group of Bangladesh Army personnel who invaded his Dhanmondi 32 residence as part of a coup d'état.^[1] Minister of Commerce, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, immediately took control of the government and proclaimed himself president. The assassination marked the first direct military intervention in Bangladesh's civilian administration-centric politics.^[2] 15 August is National Mourning Day, an official national holiday in Bangladesh.^[3]23°45′06″N 90°22′36″E / 23.7517°N 90.3767°E / 23.7517; 90.3767