Bangladesh, 1982 — military coup

Sources agree the coup was bloodless and largely anticipated. One nuance: the Christian Science Monitor notes Sattar "subsequently endorsed the action," stating military rule had "become necessary," but adds that his voluntary consent remained unclear — noted here rather than asserted as fact. The 2010 Supreme Court ruling striking down the coup's legitimizing constitutional amendment (per Wikipedia, citing Daily Star and The Hindu) could not be independently verified this session since the underlying articles were not fetched, so it is labeled CHAIN. | All six VERIFIED facts were re-fetched directly and hold up: the Washington Post archive URL is live and supports facts 1-3 (removal of Sattar's four-month-old government, bloodless takeover with no reported opposition, martial law declaration, constitution suspension, Parliament dissolution, five martial-law zones, Navy/Air Force chiefs as deputy administrators, and Sattar's house arrest — confirmed with a targeted re-fetch since the initial quote only covered part of the claim). The Christian Science Monitor URL is live and supports facts 4-6 (radio announcement quote, food-shortage/panic-buying justification, "when not if" anticipation quote, and Sattar as the military's preferred 1981 election candidate) with close-to-verbatim matches. The CHAIN fact about the 2010 Supreme Court ruling is corroborated by the live Wikipedia article, which cites Daily Star/Hindu 2010 sources and confirms the court declared Ershad (along with Ziaur Rahman and Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad) a "usurper" of power and struck down the martial-law-era constitutional changes — left as CHAIN since the underlying news articles were not independently fetched. The target_leader claim is confirmed. The only correction: the summary's closing sentence ("Ershad went on to rule Bangladesh for years afterward, formally assuming the presidency in 1983") is a claim with no corresponding sourced fact in the fact list — no fact addresses Ershad's post-coup tenure length or his 1983 presidential assumption — so it was trimmed per the strict "no unsourced claims in summary" rule. Everything else in the entry is accurate and well-sourced.