The wave of violence was sparked by a special tribunal's decision to sentence a top Islamist opposition leader to death.
ພາບການປະທ້ວງ ຢູ່ບັງກລາແດັສ ຮອດວັນທີ 4 ມີນາ
![India's President Pranab Mukherjee (R) meets Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka March 3, 2013. India's first Bengali President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Dhaka amid a shutdown called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to protest against the war](https://gdb.voanews.com/71097719-a972-4f49-bd2c-5be4fcc458f4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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India's President Pranab Mukherjee (R) meets Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka March 3, 2013. India's first Bengali President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Dhaka amid a shutdown called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to protest against the war
![Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's largest Islamic party, block traffic during a nationwide strike called by them in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Authorities deployed soldiers in a northern Bangladeshi district on Sunday after Isla](https://gdb.voanews.com/a6f0a9bc-e3e7-455c-9bc3-dfa9ee89c945_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's largest Islamic party, block traffic during a nationwide strike called by them in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Authorities deployed soldiers in a northern Bangladeshi district on Sunday after Isla
![Jamaat-e-Islami activists, protesting sentences handed down by a war crimes tribunal, block traffic by them in Bogra, Bangladesh, March 3, 2013.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8c9ba0e8-e10c-4881-8a74-de38a465ef3e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Jamaat-e-Islami activists, protesting sentences handed down by a war crimes tribunal, block traffic by them in Bogra, Bangladesh, March 3, 2013.
![Bangladeshi Hindus wave black flags as they march through a street to protest against alleged attacks by Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 2, 2013.](https://gdb.voanews.com/31902c46-67d7-4b7b-8b7b-74cb1edebe05_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Bangladeshi Hindus wave black flags as they march through a street to protest against alleged attacks by Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 2, 2013.