On August 15, 1975, Bangladesh lost its founding father and the first president Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in an assassination-coup plotted by power ambitious and opportunistic military officers backed by reactionary ideological quarters. Mujib was killed along with most of his family members in that carnage. The assassination changed the course of politics in Bangladesh, and the ramifications of which are still being felt across South Asia. Many world leaders, eminent personalities expressed their shock and condemned the heinous act of killing.
