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Published on November 7, 2016
The process was initiated much earlier, in August 1975, through the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and almost his entire family. Subsequently, on November 3 in 1975, the four national leaders were brutally killed in prison. After four days, the then rulers started killing the finest sons of the nation.
In the name of sepoy revolution, three prominent freedom fighters were killed on this day in 1975. They were Khaled Mosharraf (Bir Uttam), KN Huda (Bir Uttam) and ATM Haider (Bir Bikram). All of them were staying at the headquarters of the 10th Bengal Regiment in the morning when they were killed by two company commanders, Asad and Jalil, opening gunshots from a handshaking distance.
About the so-called sepoy revolution, journalist Anthony Mascarenhas wrote: "The unruly jawans (soldiers) killed 13 army officers including a female doctor and they also killed the wife of an army officer on the day".
Earlier on November 6, a Lancer squad of Col Faruque, one of the killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu, led by Lancer Mohiuddin, who had the key role in the assassination of Bangabandhu, freed Ziaur Rahman from house arrest and took him to Col Rashid's Artillery Regiment office, wrote writer-researcher Golam Murshid in his book "War of Liberation and afterwards".
He added that immediately after his release from house arrest, Zia went to the Radio station to address the nation without consulting with the newly appointed President of the country Justice Abu Sadaat Sayem proclaiming himself as the Chief Martial Law Administrator.
Later, Ziaur Rahman held a referendum, President election, local bodies' polls and parliamentary election one after another and through these he grabbed (read usurped) state power proclaiming himself as the President of the State, a total of 20 military coups took place during his regime.
On May 30 in 1981, dictator Ziaur Rahman was himself killed in such a military coup in Chittagong and after his murder, many freedom fighter-officers in the army including Major General Manjur were handed down with capital punishment.
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