THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: At least 44 people have died in clashes throughout Bangladesh after the leader of an Islamic party was sentenced to death for rapes and murders committed during the country's 1971 war of independence.
Violence continued on Friday in a series of battles between police and supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's fourth largest political party, in the capital Dhaka and Chittagong.
More than 20 of the dead are believed to have been killed by police who opened fire on protesters with rubber bullets.
The violence erupted amid already heightened tensions in Dhaka where thousands of anti-Jamaat protesters have been gathering daily to demand that those convicted of war crimes be hung. » | Dean Nelson, David Bergman in Dhaka | Friday, March 01, 2013
