Source : BBC News
Bangladeshi police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse Islamist activists protesting at the trial of their leaders for war crimes allegedly committed during the independence war.
At least 50 people, many of them police, were injured in the clashes.
Supporters of the country’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, say the trials are politically motivated.
Bangladesh says more than three million died when troops were sent to stop East Pakistan becoming independent in 1971.
Categories: Asia, Bangladesh