The 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état was a military coup launched by mid ranking army officers in Bangladesh on 15 August 1975. The officers were part of an age old conspiracy to assassinate Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the Bengali nation, whose leadership in the struggle between the 1970 Pakistani general election, during which became the Prime Minister elect of Pakistan and the culmination of Bangladesh Liberation War led to the foundation of Bangladesh as a nation state. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and many of his family members were killed during the coup.