A ranar 15 ga watan Agustan shekarar 1975, wasu kananan hafsoshin sojan kasar, ta hanyar amfani da tankokin yaki, suka kai farmaki gidan shugaban kasa, suka kashe Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, tare da iyalansa da ma'aikatansa.'Ya'yansa mata, Sheikh Hasina Wajed da Sheikh Rehana ne kawai suka tsere yayin da suke yammacin Jamus a lokacin kuma a sakamakon haka aka hana su komawa Bangladesh.Wani bangare na jam’iyyar Awami ne ya shirya juyin mulkin, wanda ya hada da wasu tsoffin abokan Mujib da hafsoshin soja, musamman Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, wanda daga nan ne ya karbi ragamar shugabancin kasar.Lamarin ya haifar da cece-ku-ce, ciki har da zargin hannu daga Hukumar Leken Asiri ta Amurka (CIA), tare da dan jarida Lawrence Lifschultz da ke nuni da hadin gwiwar CIA, ^[27] bisa kalaman jakadan Amurka a Dhaka a lokacin, Eugene Booster.^[28] Kisan Mujib ya jagoranci Bangladesh cikin wani dogon lokaci na rashin zaman lafiya a siyasance, wanda aka yi ta samun juyin mulki da juyin mulki, tare da kashe-kashen siyasa da dama da suka jefa kasar cikin rudani.Zaman lafiya ya fara dawowa ne a lokacin da babban hafsan sojan kasar Ziaur Rahman ya karbe iko bayan juyin mulki a shekarar 1977. Bayan da ya ayyana kansa a matsayin shugaban kasa a shekarar 1978, Zia ta kafa dokar cin zarafi, inda ta ba da kariya ta shari'a ga wadanda ke da hannu wajen shiryawa da aiwatar da kisan Mujib.