Former military ruler and President of Bangladesh Hussain Muhammad Ershad passed away ... after the country’s independence, Ershad quickly rose through the ranks in the Bangladesh Army.

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Hussein Mohammed Ershad, the former military dictator of Bangladesh who ruled from 1982 to 1990 and was serving as opposition leader in Parliament, died July 14 at a hospital in Dhaka, the capital.

Former Bangladesh President and military ruler Hussain Muhammad Ershad has died aged 89 following age-related health complications, an aide has said. “He died today morning after suffering for ...

Bangladesh's former military ruler Hossain Mohammad Ershad died on July 14, 2019 [File: Reuters] General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, the military dictator of Bangladesh for most of the 1980s ...

As dictators go, Hussain Muhammad Ershad was not an outright brute. Bangladesh, under his rule, was not a land of mass terror, imprisonment and execution. It was, rather, a country where cynicism ...

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday condoled the demise of former Bangladesh president Hussain Muhammad Ershad. Ershad died on Sunday due to complications from old age at a ...

It had been 63 years since Chakraborty had last seen Peyara, the man the world knows as Hussain Muhammad Ershad, the former dictator of Bangladesh. The 79-year-old Ershad returned to his hometown ...

The former military ruler of Bangladesh, Hussain Mohammed Ershad, was barred from leaving the country even as the army's deployment of troops to improve the law and order situation entered its ...