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Bangladeshis Bring Down Ershad Regime, 1987–1990

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Global Nonviolent Action Database / Swarthmore College

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1990

Mass Uprising

The 1990 Mass Uprising was the culmination of years of resistance to military-backed authoritarian rule in Bangladesh. Student activism, the martyrdom of Nur Hossain in 1987, opposition-alliance coordination, and professional-civic mobilization converged in a final wave of pressure that forced Hussain Muhammad Ershad to resign and opened the path to the Shahabuddin-led transition and the 1991 restoration of parliamentary democracy.