Bangladesh in the Early 1980s: Praetorian Politics in an Intermediate Regime

Autor:	Peter J. Bertocci
Rok vydání:	1982
Předmět:	Economic growth Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Liberal democracy Eleventh Independence Power (social and political) Politics Political science Economic history Martial law Military rule Proclamation media_common
Zdroj:	Asian Survey. 22:988-1008
ISSN:	1533-838X 0004-4687
DOI:	10.1525/as.1982.22.10.01p0419y
Popis:	On March 24, 1982, on the eve of the eleventh celebration of its 1971 proclamation of independence, Bangladesh began its second encounter with martial law and military rule. The first such experience for Bangladesh began with a sequence of military coups and counter-coups in late 1975, which eventually brought to power Major General, later President, Ziaur Rahman (Zia). Zia was assassinated on May 30, 1981, and the institutions of liberal democracy that he had cautiously brought back into operation were to remain functioning for less than a year after his death. During its first decade, Bangladesh seesawed back and forth between what might be roughly tallied as five and a half years of parlia
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