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Bangladesh
Islamic party protests turn violent across B'desh
2011-09-20
Violent Muslims? Nah, can't be...
DHAKA: Street marches by members of BangladeshÂ’s biggest Islamic party seeking the release of its leaders from jail turned violent across the country on Monday, with at least 70 people wounded in clashes, witnesses said.

Activists belonging to the Jamaat-e-Islami party, many carrying sticks and throwing rocks, fought running battles with steel-helmeted riot police in Dhaka and set at least 30 vehicles on fire. Twenty people were wounded and police detained nearly 25, the witnesses said.
"Calling all RAB cadres! Calling all RAB cadres! Assemble at the usual banana groves, fields and secret lairs at 3 am! Bring at least four rounds of bullet! That is all!"
“The violence has spread through a large part of the city, with smoke from the burning vehicles filling the sky,” a witness said.

There were similar clashes in Chittagong, Comilla and other cities in which 50 people including police were injured.

Police said Jamaat called the marches to demand the release of the partyÂ’s top leaders who have been held in prison for months, facing charges of acts of genocide during BangladeshÂ’s 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.

Jamaat, a political ally of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, has vowed to free their leaders and support BNPÂ’s campaign to oust the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power.
Since Khaleda and the BNP got waxed in the last election and have lost support amongst the people, violent protest is all they have left...
The government has rejected BNPÂ’s demand for early elections, saying there will be no vote before Hasina completes her five-year term at the end of 2013.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  While in America SEIUÂ’s Stephen Lerner and ACORN founder Wade Rathke, who wanted such violence here, are terribly disappointed at their cowardly followers, who have not only failed them, but "the cause" as well.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-09-20 09:47  

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