Assassination of Ziaur Rahman

Assassination of Ziaur Rahman
Assassination of Ziaur Rahman
	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; Ziaur Rahman; Lt. Colonel A.K.M. Moinul Ahsan; Captain Ashraful Hafiz Khan; Naik Md. Abu Taher; Abul Kashem (Sepoy); Abdur Rauf (Sepoy); Md. Shah Alam (Sepoy); Dulal Mia (Constable);
Injured	16 person (including Guards)
Assailants	16 army officers with a few soldiers Lt. Colonel Matiur Rahman; Major S.M. Khaled; Lt. Colonel Shah Md. Fazle Hossain; Major Mozaffar Hossain; Captain Mosleh Uddin; Captain Jamil Haque; Captain Mohammad Abdus Sattar; Lt. Colonel Mahbubur Rahman; Major Kazi Mominul Haque; Captain Salahuddin Ahmed; Captain Mohammed Ilyas; Captain Gias Uddin Ahmed; Major A.Z. Gias Uddin Ahmed; Captain Syed Mohammad Munir; Major Fazlul Haque; Lt. Rafiqul Hassan Khan;
Motive	Social injustices, corruption, political and economic rot during Ziaur Rahman regime

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. Rahman went to Chittagong to arbitrate in a clash between the local leaders of his political party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). 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.