The General and His Sins: A Reflection on General Ziaur Rahman's Regime The General and His Sins: A Reflection on General Ziaur Rahman's Regime General Ziaur Rahman, Bangladesh’s first military dictator, died in a putsch in Chittagong on 30 May 1981. All these decades on, it is important to survey the damage inflicted on the nation’s social and political fabric, not to mention the history of the Bengali nation, by the regime he headed. Simply put, the Zia regime was symbolic of darkness, of truth being sidelined by forces inimical to the concept of Bangladesh. Prising Out of Two Fundamental Principles of the Constitution: Secularism and Socialism The five and a half years of Zia's military regime remain noted for the regressive politics, or patently anti-politi...