Word: mujibur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...familiar. Heavily populated (92 million) and desperately poor (per capita in come: $90 a year), the country has en joyed little political stability in the decade since it broke away from Pakistan after a savage civil war. Its first and longest period of democratic rule ended abruptly when Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who led the independence movement and subsequently became the country's first elected Prime Minister, was assassinated in 1975. In a trio of coups, Lieut. General Mohammed Ziaur Rahman emerged as strongman, only to be assassinated by junior officers last May. Sattar, who was then Vice President, became...
...breakup of Pakistan and the country's humiliating defeat in war by India; of an internal hemorrhage; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Yahya seized power in 1969, while commander in chief of the armed forces, promising a quick return to democratic rule. But when East Pakistan's Sheik Mujibur Rahman won the 1970 national election and demanded broad autonomy for the long neglected eastern wing of the country, Yahya refused to yield power; Sheik Mujibur was arrested and civil war broke out. Yahya's troops began a wave of massacres and atrocities against civilians in the occupied East that...