

Major General Manzoor, then General Officer Commanding in Chittagong, summoned senior military officers to his office by 7am after being informed by Major Mozaffar that “The President has been killed.” In the meeting, Manzoor told 40 officers that some army officers had killed President Zia, after w

An investigative report says Bangladesh President General Ziaur Rahman was killed in a nine-minute military operation at Chittagong Circuit House in the early hours of 30 May 1981, after a group of army officers moved out of Chittagong Cantonment in heavy rain and launched an armed assault on the bu