2015 in Bangladesh

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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

Incumbents

• President: Abdul Hamid
• Prime Minister: Sheikh Hasina
• Chief Justice: Md. Muzammel Hossain (until 16 January), Surendra Kumar Sinha (starting 17 January)

Events

January

• January 5 - Bangladeshi police report that two opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists are shot dead in clashes with members of the ruling Awami League in the town of Natore on the first anniversary of disputed general election.^[1]

• January 24 - Arafat Rahman, younger son of former president Ziaur Rahman and former prime minister Khaleda Zia died.

February

• February 3 - In Chuddogram, anti-government protesters firebomb a bus full of sleeping passengers, leaving seven people dead.^[2]
• February 22 - A rescue operation is underway as a ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River after colliding with a trawler, with the death toll reaching 41.^[3]
• February 25 - An arrest warrant is issued for Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, after she fails to show up to face graft charges.^[4]
• February 27 - Avijit Roy, an American writer and blogger from Bangladesh, is hacked to death by Islamist attackers in Dhaka.^[5]

March

• March 6 - Customs officers at the Shahjalal International Airport catch Son Young Nam, a North Korean diplomat trying to smuggle an estimated $1.4 million worth of gold into Bangladesh. Bangladesh authorities release him.^[6]

April

• April 11 - Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman is executed for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War.^[7]

May

• May 12 - Bangladeshi secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is cut to pieces by a masked gang wielding machetes in the city of Sylhet. He is the third secular blogger to be killed in Bangladesh this year.^[8]

November

• November 22 - Two top Bangladeshi war criminals hanged. ^[9]

See also

• Timeline of Bangladeshi history

References

1. "Bangladesh opposition leader Zia calls for blockade". 5 January 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
2. "Bangladesh unrest: Seven burnt to death, several injured after bus firebombed". 3 February 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
3. "68 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident". 23 February 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
4. "Arrest warrants out for Khaleda Zia in graft cases".
5. "Atheist US blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh".
6. "North Korean Diplomat Caught Smuggling $1.4 Million in Gold in Bangladesh". Retrieved 2015-05-12.
7. Habib, Haroon (April 11, 2015). "Bangladesh war crimes convict Kamaruzzaman executed". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
8. "Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death - BBC News". Retrieved 2015-05-12.
9. "Bangladesh hangs opposition figures for war crimes". Retrieved 2015-11-22.