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Bangladesh |
Army sent to north Bangladesh to tackle violence |
2013-03-04 |
[Dawn] Authorities deployed soldiers in a northern Bangladeshi district Sunday after activists of the country's largest Islamic party clashed with police, leaving three people dead during a nationwide general strike called to denounce an ongoing war crimes trial. Separately two people died Sunday in a northwestern district during similar festivities. With the latest casualties, the corpse count in days of rioting has risen to 51 since Thursday after a war crimes tribunal sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami |
Posted by:Fred |