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Week of May 21, 1999
DHAKA Violent clashes with police broke out after some 11,000 college students were expelled for cheating in three days of nationwide exams. Caught copying from text books, many demanded the right to cheat and beat up teachers.Week of March 19, 1999
JESSORE Police went on high alert after two bombs killed 11 people and injured 150 at an open-air concert staged by the Communist Party. No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts.Week of March 12, 1999
In Brussels, the European Union expressed alarm at what it termed "[Bangladesh's] deteriorating political situation and growing instability" and warned: "If political violence and intolerance should continue, foreign trade and investment will be negatively affected and collaboration in development will necessarily suffer."Week of March 5, 1999
Local elections went ahead despite bomb blasts and a 72-hour strike, right, called by opposition leader Khaleda Zia. While chief election commissioner Mohammad Abu Hena described the exercise as "encouraging," he said that voting had to be canceled in 18 polling centers due to violence ''.Week of February 26, 1999
STRIKES LIKE THE ONE LED by opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Feb. 13 caused the High Court to question whether such demonstrations, opposing or supporting the government, should be considered punishable offenses. In other words, the court might order police to start cracking down on demonstrators. Its decision could come on March 1.Week of February 12, 1999
DHAKA PM Sheikh Hasina Wajed faces contempt proceedings in the Supreme Court after she publicly questioned its August decision to grant bail to 1,200 prisoners in two days of hearings.Week of February 5, 1999
DHAKA The 36-year-old writer Taslima Nasrin slipped out of the country and flew to Sweden on Jan. 24. She had returned home to stay with her mother, who died of cancer earlier in the month. Taslima faces trial for sacrilege and fled the country four years ago under a death threat.Week of January 22, 1999
DHAKA Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party has linked with the Jatiya Party of ex-president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who Zia once called the country's "most hated man." Zia has promised a public strike after Ramadan and the Eid festival are over around Jan. 20.Week of January 15, 1999
DHAKA Police picked up over 1,000 youths during New Year celebrations, arresting 200. The youths took to the streets of Dhaka drinking and playing loud music until police broke up the party with water cannon and batons.News from Bangladesh in 1998
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