Mohammad Kismat Hashem
Bangladeshi officer and coup member (1950–2015)
Mohammad Kismat Hashem (17 February 1950 – 26 March 2015) was a Bangladesh Army officer who was convicted for his role in the 1975 Jail Killing of four senior Awami League leaders following the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the president of Bangladesh.
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A few Bangladesh Army officers were dissatisfied with the government of the Bangladesh Awami League and President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Hashem was at a meeting of army officers at the 2nd Field Artillery quarter guard which was commanded by Major Khandaker Abdur Rashid and Major Syed Faruque Rahman. The officers gathered were briefed by Syed Faruque Rahman on the plan to remove Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. On 15 August 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed by the army officers along with 22 members of his family. Khandker Mushtaq Ahmed was made the president by the army officers.
Hashem left Bangladesh on 3 November 1975 after the Jail Killing of AHM Qamaruzzaman, former home minister, M Mansur Ali, the former finance minister, Tajuddin Ahmad, former prime minister, and Syed Nazrul Islam, former acting president of Bangladesh. They were imprisoned in Dhaka Central Jail after the 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état and the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members. Hashem was appointed to a diplomatic post in Ottawa, Canada, by the government of Lieutenant General Ziaur Rahman. He and the other army officers were protected from prosecution through the passage of the Indemnity Ordinance by Khandker Mushtaq Ahmed.
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