UPI en Español  |   UPI Asia  |   About UPI  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Army seeks to keep order in Bangladesh

|
 
Published: Dec. 10, 2006 at 8:14 AM

DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Demonstrators marched through the Bangladeshi capital Sunday as troops took up positions in a bid to ensure a peaceful general election.

Thousands of Awami League supporters marched through Dhaka demanding President Iajuddin Ahmed step down as head of the interim administration, the BBC reported.

The multi-party alliance, led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has charged fraud in the Jan. 23 election.

Charges included that the list of eligible voters was out of date and that some members of the election commission are biased toward Hasina rival former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.

Demonstrators threatened to surround the president's palace.

The Awami League, or People's League, is said to have been the political catalyst for Bengali discontent and rebellion in 1971.

Topics: Iajuddin Ahmed, Khaleda Zia
© 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening NBC upfronts Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York Spire raised on top of One WTC 2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 18
Greek PM Antonis vists Beijing
View Caption
Greek national flags fly over Tiananmen Square during Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras state visit to Beijing on May 16, 2013. Samaras is in China seeking investment and trade deals to help revive his country's recession-battered economy. UPI/Stephen Shaver
fark
Bar will host "Smallest Penis Contest" ... and since it will be held in New York, competition is...
Woman walking near the Arrivals section of the Fort Lauderdale Airport unexpectedly departs by bus...
Photoshop this banged up big ball
Saint Louis Fark Party, June 1 - Get drunk and climb on stuff, two week countdown
"Oops The 5 greatest scientific blunders." From someone who apparently doesn't understand how science...
Thief and suspected foodie turns himself in. Reason: "I want to eat the tasty food Nagata Precinct...