Word: rokeya
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...emergency rule. When elections were finally held after months of delays, 85% of eligible voters came to the polls - about 81 million people, more than half of them women and one-quarter of them first-time voters. "After many years, I have voted peacefully and without any fear," says Rokeya Begum, 45, a housewife in the Khilgaon area of Dhaka. (Read TIME's Top 10 news stories of the year...
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