Bangladeshi policemen use their batons to hit a female activist of country's main opposition Awami League party during a day-long nationwide general strike in Dhaka yesterday. The league called the strike, the second in as many days, to protest against what it called ``government action'' on its leaders and workers during a stoppage on Thursday.
PHOTO: AFP
Clashes erupted and transport and business was disrupted in Bangladesh yesterday after the main opposition party called a second strike in three days to protest at what it said was "barbaric" police action in the first strike.
The Awami League, the country's biggest opposition party, said in a statement nearly 100 of its members and supporters, including several senior leaders, were injured in the latest country-wide strike.
Witnesses said clashes erupted yesterday, a working day in Bangladesh, when baton-wielding police turned on stone-throwing protesters.
"The on-and-off-again battle is mostly concentrated around the Awami League central office at Gulistan, in the heart of the city," one witness said. Others said protesters had exploded some home-made bombs but no one was injured.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/02/15/2003098836Can someone post the pic of the 4 police clubbing the woman on the ground?
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