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<text id=90TT3279>
<title>
Dec. 10, 1990: World Notes:Bangladesh
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 10, 1990 What War Would Be Like
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 67
World Notes
BANGLADESH
Forecast: More Turbulence
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<p> First the opposition began another round of violent protest.
Then, inevitably, President Hussain Mohammad Ershad declared
a state of emergency, banned political activity and suspended
civil rights. Just as predictably, the protesters paid no
attention to the presidential order as they pursued their
campaign to bring down Ershad, who had come to power in a 1982
coup.
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<p> As usual in the turbulent politics of Bangladesh,
demonstrators thronged the streets of Dhaka, the capital, and
were sporadically dispersed by soldiers wielding batons and
tear-gas canisters even as they fortified themselves with
makeshift barricades. The government ordered the arrest of the
two women who head the main opposition groups--Sheik Hasina
Wazed of the Awami League and Begum Khaleda Zia of the
Bangladesh Nationalist Party--but the two remained undaunted.
As it happens, Hasina is the daughter of a slain former
President, and Zia is the widow of another. Vowed Hasina:
"Ershad's last days have arrived. We shall not leave the
streets until the dictator is removed."
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