General Ziaur Rahman's Military regime_Part-1

Ziaur Rahman emerged as the military strongman after the November 7,1975 soldier's mutiny.For almost a year he ruled from behind the scene as one of three deputy Martial Law Administrator keeping justice A.M. Sayem as the President and chief Martial Law Administrator.Parliament was dissolved and the political parties and civil and political rights were suppressed under martial law. The regime, however,made repeated promises to restore democracy. The President's council of advisory's ware drawn from mainly the ranks of bureaucrats and technocrats. Many of them had served the military regimes in the Pakistani period and knew the art of running such regimes. More details of General Ziaur Rahman will be in next article.