| Office | President of Bangladesh |
|---|---|
| Term start | 15 August 1975 |
| Term end | 6 November 1975 |
| Predecessor | Mujibur Rahman |
| Successor | Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem |
| Birth date | 1918 |
| Birth place | Daspara, British Raj (now Bangladesh) |
| Death date | 5 March |
| Death place | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Party | Awami League (1949–1975; 1975–1996) |
| Otherparty | All-India Muslim League (Before 1949)Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (1975) |
| Alma mater | University of Dhaka |
| Religion | Islam }} |
Sheikh Mujib and all but two members of his family were assassinated by a group of army officers on 15 August 1975, apparently with the concurrence of Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad. Khondaker immediately took control of the government, proclaiming himself president. Several of the army officers were promoted two or three ranks ahead, e.g. Major Syed Faruque Rahman was promoted as Colonel. Major General Ziaur Rahman, husband of Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was appointed as Chief of Staff of Bangladesh Army. Khondaker also ordered the imprisonment of pro-Mujib leaders Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman and Muhammad Mansur Ali. He replaced the national slogan of ''Joy Bangla'' with the ''Bangladesh Zindabad'' slogan and changed the name ''Bangladesh Betar'' to 'Radio Bangladesh'. More controversially, he proclaimed the Indemnity Ordinance, which granted immunity from prosecution to the assassins of Mujib. Mujib's daughters Sheikh Hasina Wazed and Sheikh Rehana were barred from returning to Bangladesh from abroad. BAKSAL and pro-Mujib political groups were dissolved.
On 3 November, the four imprisoned pro-Mujib leaders were assassinated while imprisoned at the Dhaka Central Jail. However, Ahmad was ousted from power on 6 November in a coup led by pro-Mujib military officers Khaled Mosharraf and Shafat Jamil.
Ahmad was named in the investigation of the murder of Sheikh Mujib launched in 1996 by his daughter Sheikh Hasina, who had just won the national elections and become Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Due to his death, he was not charged or tried. Historians and critics assert that Ahmad was one of the key plotters of Mujib's murder. He is also criticised for legitimising political murders by protecting Mujib's killers. Mujib's killer Colonel Abdur Rashid, now in self-exile in Libya and Pakistan, was his nephew, and another killer Colonel Syed Faruque Rahman was Colonel Rashid's wife's brother-in-law.
He is also known to be responsible for the heinous killing of the four national leaders, who led the country during the liberation war in absence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, former Vice President Syed Nazrul Islam, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed and Captain Muhammad Mansur Ali, and former interior minister A H M Qamaruzzaman on 3 November 1975 inside the Dhaka Central Jail, commemorated as Jail Killing Day.
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