Hussain Muhammad Ershad. (Photo: AP Photo / Pavel Rahman)

Suffering for Three Weeks, Former Bangladesh Dictator Passed Away in Dhaka

Estella Claudia
Politics & Economic
International
Jul 15, 2019
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - According to Reuters, Armed Forces Spokesperson, Abdullah bin Zaid has justified the news regarding Former Bangladesh military dictator, Hussain Muhammad Ershad (89), who passed away yesterday on Sunday (7/14) because of sickness.

It is reported that Ershad passed away because of liver and kidney complications and had been treated and struggled for 10 days or 3 weeks in a military hospital in Dhaka which he had suffered since his old days.

General Ershad declared himself as a president in 1983 and ruled Bangladesh for almost a decade. He was overthrown by pro-democracy supporters in 1990. During the Ershad government there were several things that marked a controversial decision to make Islam the state religion in Bangladesh which is actually a secular state with a Muslim majority, and he was spent several years in prison on corruption charges.

According to the record, Ershad also became the head of the Bangladesh Armed Forces in 1982 when he took control of the government of Bangladesh from a collapsed coup.

It is also reported that his region, in northern Bangladesh, made him elected to parliament six times in a row after he became an ally with Sheikh Hasina.

However, despite the many cases directed at him, Ershad was one of the major powers in Bangladesh after his party, the Jatiya Party, became the third largest political axis in the country in the 1990s.

Ershad was also a poet and actively wrote poetries. He once commented to local reporters that his biggest failure was to run the country gently with a poetic heart while in prison in 1996.

Source: https://www.cnnindonesia.com/internasional/20190714172347-113-412004/mantan-diktator-bangladesh-meninggal-dunia

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