Abstract
BANGLADESH ENTERED its second decade of independent existence with a democratic government under President Abdus Sattar, who had succeeded President Ziaur Rahman after Zia was assassinated on May 30, 1981. Many people hoped that this seemingly illfated nation would be able to sustain the transition to a democraticcivilian rule that Zia had initiated. But a bloodless takeover of the government by the military, under Lt. General H. M. Ershad, in March 1982 changed the political process in Bangladesh. The major question confronting Bangladesh in 1982 was whether the military would be able to provide a cohesive leadership to the nation and to come to terms with the country's enormous economic and social problems. The fundamental dilemma facing the military, like other praetorian regimes, remains how to evolve a national political process that ensures the effective participation of the military and at the same time involves a myriad of social groups and interests in the governance of the nation.
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