Talk:Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Conspirators = "Freedom fighters"
Freedom fighter is too loaded a phrase to reasonably use and doesn't add anything to the article overall Alastairward 23:21, 10 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Just as some of the conspirators were described as "Army officers", they are correctly described as freedom fighters who had participated in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan Army. This information is significant as Mujib was the Father of the Nation, and the leader-in-absentia of the liberation war. Therefore, the information is quite relevant and significant. Thank you. --Ragib 23:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)


 * No, there's a big difference between army officers (a factual description) and freedom fighters (which is ambiguous and could be seen as a weasel word. Not seeing any reason to keep it and a reason to do away with it, I would rather edit it out. Alastairward 23:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, exactly HOW do you describe someone who has participated in Bangladesh Liberation War. If you have a better word, be my guest. Seems like your objection is with the specific word, so if you have any other word to describe this, please go ahead. -Ragib 23:41, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * As simply "veterans of the Bangladesh Liberation War". Its factual and leads to no unnecessary conclusions Alastairward 14:53, 12 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Sources say that the killers of Mujib were disputed freedom fighters. L. Colonel Hamid has questioned their role as the freedom fighters on the basis of his tickets, passports etc. Even, Humayun Ahmed expressed doubt about their role during the liberation war in his novel "Deyal".

General layout and bias
The article is littered with spelling and grammatical mistakes, and the patently obvious bias (e.g. "the greatest bangali") should be ammended. I attempted a primary clean up. New to editing, so I dont know how to label the bias.

Also, there are a lot of places requiring citations.

Killing method
This article talks an awful lot about people being "killed", "assassinated", and "murdered". But how were they killed? Shot? Stabbed? Blasted with negative thoughts? The passive voice is a problem, too, but secondary to the vague language. Kafziel Complaint Department 21:39, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


 * To be exact, they were shot at close range. Rahman himself took about 18 bullets, according to newspaper reports. --Ragib (talk) 22:28, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you have those sources? Adding that information and citing those sources would improve the language and solve the lack of sources in that section. Kafziel Complaint Department 23:50, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Bias and inaccuracy
The article is filled with bias, towards both Mujib and his detractors. Many facts are horribly wrong, for example, he never declared himself "President for Life of Bangladesh". And just take a look at the introduction- "The assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, part of a military coup, took place in the early hours of August 15, 1975, when a group of junior army officers invaded Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's residence with tanks. At the time of his assassination, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was serving as the self-declared life-long president of Bangladesh."

Plus, the assassination is a major event in Bangladeshi history, hence the article should be more elaborate and comprehensive. I'll start working on it soon :).

The neutrality is very much questioned. Hence, the POV tag. It should have been given a long time ago.--202.191.127.5 (talk) 22:15, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Incorrectness is not equal to POV. If you feel certain information is wrong, feel free to fix them or tag them for references. It is not clear from your comment above which particular statement you find to be POV ... you merely mentioned two statements that you find to be incorrect. I do agree with your statement that the article needs to be comprehensive, so please work on that. --Ragib (talk) 22:29, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Are these acceptable under wikipedia standards? "invaded Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's residence with tanks" (and fact is they did not, tanks were used to deter the Rakhi Bahini).--114.134.94.42 (talk) 17:46, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Removed WP:OR
I have removed the following unsourced original research from the article.

"[Corruption started to spread during those initial years of Bangladeshi independence.] An example is, sari, basic dress for any Bangladeshi woman that time, mujib govenment imported it for 0.4 taka, but there were so many middle man, in local market it used to be 4-5 taka, which was too much (price for 150 kg jute fiber) at that time.

Then his family started corruption and they treated the national army very badly. The country people couldn't afford food and clothes, but his son got a heavy crown made with pure gold in this birthday which is indirectly the government money. The army used to get just one meal a day with two bread pieces and little curry(approx. 250 K cal) whereas Mujib's leaded local police "Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini" got 3 times heavy meal (over 2000 k Cal). Source-(My dad was a junior army officer at that time)

But, one of the greatest reason why he was killed by national army's top Major rank officers is, his own son kidnapped a topnotch Major's wife and raped her. And father of the nation protected his son from law (obviously, cause they were the law makers).

In a nutshell, the whole national army was too angry after this incident and the previous discrimination's.

Rahman had to face the disastrous aftermath of the 1971 war.

After his death, the national army in Dhaka brought out a cheers rally on the streets of the capital city, they were happy that the country got saved. But, they still respected him, because, Bangladesh was created from his words."

If you want to explain why the assassination was carried out, you have to provide better sources. Your father's stories are not a reliable source, as per WP:RS, even if he had been a co-conspirator. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 03:27, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

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Rtd. acronym?
I'm conducting a copyedit of this page and I haven't been able to find a clear definition for the "Rtd." acronym that appears next to many names. The closest would be the military acronym "Returned to duty". If so, I'm not sure how much it adds to the article and I'm tempted to delete entirely or use only at first mention of title. What do others think? Wingedserif (talk) 20:54, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

In my opinion, that acronym could also mean the opposite of "Returned to duty", ie "Retired". Not sure, myself. Alvin Seville (talk) 15:13, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Retired, common abbreviation in South Asia.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 16:53, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Contradiction
This article says Abdul Majid was acquitted, but Abdul Majid (officer) says his sentence was upheld. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 20:40, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Nothing about Rashed Chowdhury
There is no mention about MA Rashed Chowdhury, one of the absconding plotters staying in the US. There has been several media reports on him recently. LucrativeOffer (talk) 11:08, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

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Translated from Bengali page
I am not done updating this page using translations from the Bengali page, but have done so for the first section on Rahman's presidency. Dogma-ticks (talk) 17:8, 10 February 2024 (UTC)