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Rupa Publications India The Bangladesh Military Coup and the CIA Link by B.Z. Khasru
On 15 August 1975, several junior officers of the Bangladesh Army stormed the residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, killing the nation’s founder and most of his family members Contrary to popular myth that the violent putsch was orchestrated by those countries which had opposed the creation of Bangladesh, American declassified documents suggest that the assassination was the culmination of a homegrown plot, but the United States had advance knowledge of it