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❦Anthony Mascarenhas
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Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood
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An important international account of post-independence Bangladesh, political killings, coups, and state instability.
The Rape of Bangladesh
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Influential account that helped expose atrocities in East Pakistan to a global audience.
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Liberation War
The Liberation War of 1971 grew out of the denied majority verdict of the 1970 election, the March non-cooperation movement, and the Pakistan Army's 25 March crackdown. What followed was not a single battlefield episode but a combined political, military, and humanitarian rupture: a provisional government, sector-based armed resistance, mass displacement into India, and finally the defeat of Pakistani forces in December and the birth of Bangladesh.
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15 August Assassination of Sheikh Mujib
On 15 August 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family were killed in a military-backed coup in Dhaka. The event marked a foundational rupture in post-independence politics and opened a prolonged period of military and quasi-military dominance.
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Assassination of Ziaur Rahman
President Ziaur Rahman was killed in Chittagong on 30 May 1981 during a military revolt. The immediate aftermath included a contested search for responsibility, the death of Major General M. A. Manzur, and a civilian succession under Abdus Sattar before Ershad’s 1982 coup.
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7 November Sepoy-Janata Uprising
On 7 November 1975, amid coups and counter-coups after the August and jail killings, sections of soldiers and political activists mobilized in Dhaka. The upheaval helped bring Ziaur Rahman to the center of state power, while its meaning remains sharply contested in Bangladesh's political memory.