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: 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 members of the 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.