[Dhaka Tribune] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
offered his renewed support to Bangladesh in protecting people's fundamental freedoms.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....
UN Secretary-General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
said the Bangladesh government had the responsibility to protect people in general from violence.
John Kerry urged Bangladesh government to take action to end the ongoing violence peacefully and condemned the targeting of civilians by political parties.
Kerry made the call in a meeting with Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at the State Department Thursday night, said a senior State Department official.
He also urged the opposition parties to stop such attacks immediately, the diplomat said.
Kerry said there can be no tolerance for tactics that target innocent citizens or inhibit political expression in a democratic Bangladesh.
When contacted, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said the US secretary of state asked him to take immediate step to stop violence.
"He also expressed his desire to come to Dhaka as soon as possible," Mahmood said.