Bangladesh
Security forces kill two protesting workers in Bangladesh
By Wimal Perera, July 10, 2009
Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina Wajed’s government has launched a sweeping crackdown on protesting garment workers after police and para-military Ansar forces shot dead two striking workers.
Bangladeshi government authorises arrest of 1,000 mutineers
By Sarath Kumara, March 5, 2009
Despite promises of an amnesty, the Bangladeshi government has launched a massive manhunt for members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) who mutinied last week and murdered their army commanders.
Bangladesh’s government ends revolt by border guards
By K. Ratnayake, February 28, 2009
A 33-hour mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), the country’s border guards, has shaken the government and the military. Having persuaded the mutineers to surrender, the government is ruthlessly re...
Bangladesh: Awami League wins election landslide after military regime relinquishes power
By Wimal Perera, January 3, 2009
An alliance led by the Awami League won national elections in Bangladesh on Monday with a landslide victory that expressed widespread popular opposition to the military-backed regime that has held pow...
Ferry disaster in Bangladesh claims hundreds of lives
By Wimal Perera, July 19, 2003
Hundreds of people are dead after one of Bangladesh’s worst ferry disasters. The badly overcrowded ferry, the MV Nazreen-1, sank in flood-swollen waters at the confluence of the Padma, Meghna an...
Bangladesh government exploits bomb blasts to detain political opponents
By Sarath Kumara, January 8, 2003
The Bangladesh government has used a series of bomb blasts on December 7 to intensify a crackdown on its political opponents, including the arrest of prominent leaders of the opposition Awami League (...
Bangladesh’s "crime" crackdown results in the deaths of 24 detainees
By Wimal Perera and Sarath Kumara, November 20, 2002
In the name of combatting crime, the Bangladesh government has mobilised some 40,000 soldiers alongside police in a huge nationwide dragnet that began on October 17 and has already resulted in the det...
Ferry disaster in Bangladesh claims 300 lives
By Deepal Jayasekera, May 8, 2002
More than 300 people have died in one of Bangladesh’s worst ferry disasters. The triple-decked MV Shalahuddin-2 was caught in a storm in the Meghna River last Friday on its way from the capital ...
India-Bangladesh border still tense after worst clash in 30 years
By Nishanthi Priyangika, May 21, 2001
The India-Bangladesh border remains tense following a major clash between the armed forces of the two countries in mid-April that claimed the lives of 19 soldiers. While the immediate cause is an outs...
Another round of anti-government strikes and protests in Bangladesh
By Nishathi Priyangika, April 26, 2001
At least two people are dead and 20 people have been wounded in the latest anti-government strikes and protests in Bangladesh this week. One person was killed by police gunfire and another activist fr...
Bangladesh's worst ferry disaster claims nearly 200 lives
By Nishanthi Priyangika, January 5, 2001
More than 165 people are dead in Bangladesh's worst ferry disaster and the figure could rise further as over 100 are still missing. Unofficial reports put the death toll at 188. At least 40 of the dea...
Striking dock workers shot dead in Bangladesh
By Nishanthi Priyangika, December 9, 2000
Bangladeshi police shot dead four striking dock workers and wounded more than 100 on December 5 during a demonstration in the port city of Mongla, 160 kilometres southwest of Bangladesh's capital Dhak...
