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- <text id=90TT3279>
- <title>
- Dec. 10, 1990: World Notes:Bangladesh
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 10, 1990 What War Would Be Like
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 67
- World Notes
- BANGLADESH
- Forecast: More Turbulence
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <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.
- </p>
- <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."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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