Deadly Bangladesh clashes over 'blasphemous' bloggers
At least four dead as Bangladesh Islamists battle police
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has shown no sign of backing down, saying the trials will be completed at any cost. The government, which promised in its election pledges in 2008 to complete the war-crimes trials, set up the tribunals in 2010.The clashes come amid renewed tension over a tribunal judging war crimes committed during the 1971 independence war.
Last week, Bangladesh's parliament amended a law which will allow the state to appeal against the life sentence given by the tribunal to an Islamist party leader.In recent weeks a group of bloggers, including Mr Haider, had launched mass protests demanding his execution and a ban on the country's largest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami.Two people were shot dead by police in the northwestern town of Palashbari, and two others died elsewhere, police told AFP.Parts of the capital Dhaka were turned into a battlefield as thousands of protesters attacked police with bricks and sticks in front of the national mosque. Officers there retaliated with rubber bullets and tear gas.Police said clashes also broke out in the port city of Chittagong, the northern city of Bogra where 15,000 protesters attacked law-enforcers, and dozens of other cities and towns where police fired rubber bullets and tear gas.About 200 people were injured nationwide, police and doctors said,In Dhaka violence broke out outside the Baitul Mukarram national mosque, where protesters also attacked around a dozen journalists.Police tried to thwart the protest by locking the gates of the mosque where tens of thousands of people were performing their weekly Jumma prayers, an AFP photographer at the scene said.
Bangladesh police fire tear gas at protesters,
At least one killed and dozens injured after Jamaat-e-Islami supporters clash with police over war crimes trials. Police in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, have fired tear gas to disperse thousands of supporters of an Islamist party protesting against a ...
At least four dead as Bangladesh Islamists battle police
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has shown no sign of backing down, saying the trials will be completed at any cost. The government, which promised in its election pledges in 2008 to complete the war-crimes trials, set up the tribunals in 2010.The clashes come amid renewed tension over a tribunal judging war crimes committed during the 1971 independence war.
Last week, Bangladesh's parliament amended a law which will allow the state to appeal against the life sentence given by the tribunal to an Islamist party leader.In recent weeks a group of bloggers, including Mr Haider, had launched mass protests demanding his execution and a ban on the country's largest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami.Two people were shot dead by police in the northwestern town of Palashbari, and two others died elsewhere, police told AFP.Parts of the capital Dhaka were turned into a battlefield as thousands of protesters attacked police with bricks and sticks in front of the national mosque. Officers there retaliated with rubber bullets and tear gas.Police said clashes also broke out in the port city of Chittagong, the northern city of Bogra where 15,000 protesters attacked law-enforcers, and dozens of other cities and towns where police fired rubber bullets and tear gas.About 200 people were injured nationwide, police and doctors said,In Dhaka violence broke out outside the Baitul Mukarram national mosque, where protesters also attacked around a dozen journalists.Police tried to thwart the protest by locking the gates of the mosque where tens of thousands of people were performing their weekly Jumma prayers, an AFP photographer at the scene said.
Bangladesh police fire tear gas at protesters,
At least one killed and dozens injured after Jamaat-e-Islami supporters clash with police over war crimes trials. Police in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, have fired tear gas to disperse thousands of supporters of an Islamist party protesting against a ...
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