Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, affectionately known as 'Bangabandhu', was the first president of an independent Bangladesh. His life was cut short when a group of Bangladesh Army personnel staged a coup ...

A defaced portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founding father, in the capital, Dhaka, in November. His daughter Sheikh Hasina was ousted as prime minister this summer.

In 1975, her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s charismatic founding leader, and most of their family were massacred in a military coup. Ms. Hasina, who was abroad at the time, was ...