Hussain Muhammad Ershad

Hossain Mohammad Ershad ( Bengali: হুসেইন মুহাম্মদ এরশাদ, Husein Muhammad Eraśād; born 1 February 1930 in Rangpur, Bengal, British India ) is a retired lieutenant general and politician from Bangladesh.

Biography

Ershad came in 1952 in the armed forces of Pakistan a. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1969. During the Unabhängigkeitsampfes of Bangladesh he was in Pakistan and was adopted after the independence of Bangladesh on 16 December 1971 as Generaladjudant in the armed forces of the new state. In 1975 he was promoted to Major General and appointed by then- Army Commander, Major General Ziaur Rahman as Deputy Chief of Army Staff.

Ziaur Rahman made ​​Ershad his successor as army chief, as he administrator of martial law in 1976 and then was himself on November 29 on April 21, 1977 President of Bangladesh, and promoted him soon afterward to lieutenant general. As army chief to Ershad initially presented during the constitutional crisis after the assassination of Rahman in an abortive military coup in May 1981 to the President Abdus Sattar page. However, it came to the choice of an 75 -year-old Sattar as President in November 1981 to break with him because of disagreements about the role of the armed forces. Sattar saw the only task of the army in ensuring the defense and security of the country. Ershad held back at first, until it came to tensions in the government of President Sattar because of the political and economic situation. On 24 March 1982 Ershad seized power in a bloodless coup and declared himself first to the Supreme administrator of martial law (Chief Martial Law Administrator). This office and thus the actual position of power he retained also held, as at March 27, 1982 AFM Ahsanuddin Chowdhury became president.

On December 11, 1983 Ershad declared himself finally himself president. Against the imposed martial law and the approach adopted by the government Islamization of society, there were numerous protests and strikes. To social tensions, it also came with the 500,000 Biharis living in Bangladesh who have been living mainly in camps. General Ershad tried with the privatization of state enterprises to create incentives for foreign investors and to reduce the high unemployment ( around 30 percent). After an initial stabilization of the political situation he laid down on 30 March 1984, the Office of the Supreme Martial Law Administrator.

After renewed nationwide protests he stepped back on 6 December 1990 as president and was arrested. On January 9, 1997, he was released on bail from prison, but had to in 17 cases brought to trial on charges of corruption and abuse of office. On 20 November 2000, he was arrested again for serving a five year sentence for bribery after his defeat in the appeal process.