by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 3, 2013 | World
Dhaka, Reuters—Bangladesh deployed troops on Sunday to a town where eight people were killed in clashes between police and Islamist party supporters protesting against the conviction of party leaders on charges stemming from the country’s 1971 independence war....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 28, 2013 | World
Dhaka, Reuters—A Bangladesh tribunal convicted an Islamist party leader and sentenced him to death on Thursday, the third verdict by the court set up to investigate abuses during the country’s independence war, triggering widespread protests by supporters in...