Bangladesh war crimes verdict protests turn deadly
Source: CNN
By Farid Ahmed, for CNN
updated 10:20 PM EST, Fri February 15, 2013
Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Protests over a war-crimes trial verdict in Bangladesh have resulted in at least six deaths here in the capital city of Dhaka and in the southeast tourist city of Cox's Bazar, police said Friday.
The incidents stem from February 5, when an International War Crimes Tribunal sentenced Abdul Quader Mollah, a leader of the Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, to life in prison on war-crimes charges -- including murder -- that date back to the country's war of independence in 1971.
Shortly afterward the sentence was announced, throngs of people -- most of them young -- formed a sit-in in Dhaka's Shahbagh Square, demanding that those who were involved in crimes during the war of independence be sentenced to death.
The protesters, many of them students, demanded that Mollah's penalty be changed to death ...
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