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  1. Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!nil!sahmed
  3. From: sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Saif Ahmed)
  4. Subject: ONE KILLED IN MOSLEM SECTARIAN FIGHTING
  5. Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu
  6. Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
  7. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:44:14 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <SAHMED.92Nov19134414@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
  9. X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu
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  14.    One man was killed and 10 were injured when members of the small
  15. Ohabi Islamic sect opened fire on a procession of Sunni Moslems in the
  16. Bangladesh port of Chittagong, police said on Thursday.
  17.  
  18.    The attack on Wednesday followed ''derogatory'' remarks made about
  19. the Ohabis at a Sunni rally a few days earlier, one police officer
  20. told reporters.
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  22.    More than 90 per cent of Bangladeshi Moslems are Sunnis, the
  23. largest sect in Islam.
  24.  
  25.    Last week unidentified attackers burned down several homes
  26. belonging to members of a third Moslem sect, the Qadianis, in the
  27. Bangladesh capital and damaged a mosque, police said.
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  29.    The fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party had earlier asked the
  30. government to declare the Qadianis non-Moslem.
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  37. | | Saifuddin Ahmed                                                        |
  38. | | sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu                                             |
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