Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan da'yancin kai
A shekara ta 1971, Bangladesh ta ga jerin juyin mulkin soja, wanda ya fara da kisan gillar Shugaba Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1975, ta hanyar wasu jami'an sojoji, wadanda suka sanya Khondaker Mostaq Ahmed a matsayin shugaban kasa. An hambarar da gwamnatin Khondaker Mostaq a ranar 3 ga Nuwamba na wannan shekarar ta jami'an da ke goyon bayan Mujib karkashin jagorancin Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf da Kanar Shafat Jamil. Wani juyin mulki a ranar 7 ga Nuwamba ya kawo shugaban sojojin Maj. Janar Ziaur Rahman zuwa mulki. A shekarar 1977, Ziaur Rahman ya zama shugaban kasa kuma ya mika mukamin shugaban rundunar soji ga Laftanar Janar Hussain Muhammad Ershad. Zia ya kafa Jam'iyyar Nationalist ta Bangladesh (BNP) kuma ya nemi sake dawo da dimokiradiyya a Bangladesh, amma a 1981 wasu rukunin jami'an sojoji a karkashin Manjo Janar Abul Manzoor ne suka kashe shi. Duk da cewa ana fargabar cewa sojojin za su sake kwace mulki, shugaban sojojin Ershad ya kasance mai aminci ga magajin farar hula na Ziaur Rahman, mataimakin shugaban kasa Alkali Abdus Sattar kuma ya murkushe yunkurin juyin mulkin da Manzoor ya jagoranta. Sattar ya zama dan takarar shugaban kasa na BNP a zaben 1982, wanda ya ci nasara.