Idea of Bangladesh

With the death toll climbing from violence unleashed by supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami following Thursday's verdict, sentencing Jamaat vice-president Delwar Hossain Sayedee to death, Bangladesh's deep divisions appear to have taken the country hostage, if not by surprise. The surprise had come earlier — first, when the process begun by Sheikh Hasina's government, to try people accused of war crimes in 1971, came under international censure and was nearly derailed by domestic upheaval.

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