Bangladesh: Opposition Leader's 'War Crimes' Trial Leads to Violent Protests

February 13, 2013 from Al Jazeera English

The volatile political crisis in Bangladesh has once again boiled over into violence on the streets of the capital, Dhaka. Several people belonging to country's largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, were injured as they clashed with police demanding halt to the country's war crimes trials. Many Jamaat leaders are under trial for the war crimes going back to the war for independence in 1971. Al Jazeera's Jamal ElShayyal reports.

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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, previously known as Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, and Jamaat for short, is the largest Islamist political party in Bangladesh. The Jamaat was created in 1941 in British India by Maulana Maududi. It became the main Islamist political party in both Paki... Explore this topic

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