35 die as sentence triggers violence
Posted: March 1, 2013 at 5:24 a.m.
Violent clashes between angry mobs and security forces broke out Thursday across Bangladesh, leaving at least 35 people dead, after a special war-crimes tribunal handed down a death sentence to a fundamentalist Islamic leader for crimes against humanity committed 42 years ago, during the country’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
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