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...power in 1996 as head of the secular, center-left Awami League party he had founded. Hasina's government lifted the legal ordinance put into place by Mujib's usurpers that protected the coup's conspirators. But in 2001, Hasina was ousted in an election by her bitter rival, Khaleda Zia, the widow of Ziaur Rahman, a general who ruled Bangladesh not long after Mujib's death and who was also killed by a group of rebellious army officers. The case fell into legal limbo, and the feuding between the two women and their political parties grew so rancorous over...
...results were overwhelming. The Awami League, led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, won a staggering 230 of parliament's 299 seats. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party - led by another former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, who has often faced off against Sheikh Hasin over the years - was reduced to 27. With its allies, the Awami League will have a commanding 262-seat majority...
...That's why Khaleda Zia's strategic decision to campaign with an alliance of four Islamist parties, including the Jamaat-i-Islami, which includes some who collaborated with the Pakistani military against the freedom movement, proved to be a huge miscalculation. She repeatedly invoked religion, proclaiming that a vote for the BNP was a vote to "save Islam." She was also silent on the issue of prosecuting war crimes committed during the 1971 struggle. The symbolic low point came this fall, when several Islamist groups pulled down a memorial to the student movement near the airport - they called...
...street battles between the country's two main political parties, the Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The interim government rode into power on a tidal wave of popular anger and exasperation with the AL and the BNP and their demagogic, warring leaders, Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, who ran these behemoth parties as their personal fiefs. Both Hasina and Zia were arrested and imprisoned, charged on various counts of graft and abuse of power. Some of their closest political allies were also convicted of corruption as the caretaker government vowed to shake things up in Dhaka...
...Will Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina be allowed to stand for the elections...