Editing Bangladesh Armed Forces (section)

=== Post-independence ===
{{See also|Military coups in Bangladesh|Chittagong Hill Tracts Conflict}}
The newly formed Bangladeshi armed forces incorporated some of the units and guerrillas of the Mukti Bahini.<ref name="LC">{{cite book |title=Bangladesh: A Country Study |date=1989 |publisher=Federal Research Division, Library of Congress |editor1-last=Heitzman |editor1-first=James |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |page=211 |chapter=Postindependence Period |access-date=23 March 2020 |editor2-last=Worden |editor2-first=Robert |chapter-url=https://www.loc.gov/item/89600298/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404171656/http://www.loc.gov/item/89600298/ |archive-date=4 April 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> Gen. Osmani, who had led the Mukti Bahini was appointed the [[Military of Bangladesh|General of the Bangladesh armed forces]].<ref name="OT">{{cite book |last=Khan |first=Muazzam Hussain |year=2012 |chapter=Osmany, General Mohammad Ataul Ghani |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Osmany,_General_Mohammad_Ataul_Ghani |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]] |access-date=23 March 2020 |archive-date=17 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617084932/https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Osmany,_General_Mohammad_Ataul_Ghani |url-status=live }}</ref> For many years, there was active discrimination in favour of the inductees from the Mukti Bahini against those Bengali officers who had continued service in the Pakistani armed forces or had been detained in [[West Pakistan]].<ref name="LC"/><ref name="GF">{{cite book |url=http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/ |title=Bangladesh: A Country Study |date=1989 |publisher=Federal Research Division, Library of Congress |editor1-last=Heitzman |editor1-first=James |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |pages=32–36 |chapter=Mujib coup |access-date=23 March 2020 |editor2-last=Worden |editor2-first=Robert |chapter-url=http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/19.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622211513/http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/21.htm |archive-date=22 June 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> A group of angered officers [[Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman|assassinated]] the president Sheikh Mujib on 15 August 1975 and established a regime with politician [[Khondaker Mostaq Ahmed]] as [[President of Bangladesh]] and new [[Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army|army chief]] Maj. Gen. [[Ziaur Rahman]].<ref name="GF"/> The military itself was subject of divisions as Mujib's assassins were overthrown by the pro-Mujib Brig. Gen. [[Khaled Mosharraf]] on 3 November, who himself was soon overthrown by a socialist group of officers under Col. [[Abu Taher]] on 7 November who returned Ziaur Rahman to power—an event now called the ''[[National Revolution and Solidarity Day|Sipoy-Janata Biplob]]'' (''Soldiers and People's Coup'').<ref name="JSTOR3">{{cite journal |last=Islam |first=Syed Serajul |date=May 1984 |title=The State in Bangladesh under Zia (1975–81) |journal=Asian Survey |publisher=University of California Press |volume=24 |issue=5 |pages=556–573 |jstor=2644413 |doi=10.2307/2644413}}</ref> Under the presidency of Ziaur Rahman, the military was reorganised to remove conflicts between rival factions and discontented cadre.<ref name="VS">{{cite book |url=http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/ |title=Bangladesh: A Country Study |date=1989 |publisher=Federal Research Division, Library of Congress |editor1-last=Heitzman |editor1-first=James |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |pages=36–37 |chapter=Restoration of Military Rule |access-date=23 March 2020 |editor2-last=Worden |editor2-first=Robert |chapter-url=http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/20.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622211513/http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/21.htm |archive-date=22 June 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> However, Ziaur Rahman was himself overthrown in a [[Assassination of Ziaur Rahman|1981 coup attempt]],<ref name="killing">{{cite magazine |title=Bangladesh: Death at Night |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922557,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930092059/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922557,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 September 2007 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=8 June 1981 |access-date=10 September 2006 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> and a year later, Lt. Gen. [[Hossain Mohammad Ershad]] took power from the elected government of president [[Abdus Sattar (president)|Abdus Sattar]]. The military remained the most important force in national politics under the regimes of Ziaur Rahman and later Hossain Mohammad Ershad until democracy was restored in 1991.<ref name="VS"/>