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1968 To detach Sheikh Mujib and the Awami League from the general masses and to create divisions within the opposition alliance, the Pakistani government discovered a conspiracy dubbed as the Agartala Conspiracy.
Google | 1974 State of emergency declared as political situation deteriorates; fundamental rights under Constitution suspended.
Google | 1975 Three of the four Cabinet members of late President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, killed in Dacca Central Jail were buried in Banani graveyard in Dacca while the body of former Industries Minister Mr. A.H.M Kamaruzzaman was flown to Rajshahi by a helicopter at the request of his relatives for burial.
Google | 1987 Nur Hossain, perhaps the most widely known martyr in the movement in Bangladesh against the dictatorship of General Hossain Mohammad Ershad,
was shot down by police during the Dhaka Blockade program where his chest and back were painted with slogans 'Sairachar nipat jak, Ganatantra mukti pak (Down with autocracy, let democracy be established)'.
Google | 1987 At least four persons were killed and over 100 other injured in sporadic clashes between the police and demonstrators in different parts of the city during the observance of November 10 programme by the opposition.
Google | 1995 More than 70 people died for lack of blood, medicine, necessary apparatus for operation and also for lack of physicians in different hospitals of the capital city during 72-hour hartal called by the Opposition.
Google | 1996 A gasoline bomb killed one person and injured 15 aboard a bus that was defying a nationwide general strike.
Google | 1998 740 Shanti Bahini rebels surrender in Khagrachari; J.B. Larma announces the formal disbandment of the Shanti Bahini; Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledges a $ 470 million development package for the Chittagong region.
Google | 1998 A general strike began and police clashed with strikers. An alliance of 7 opposition parties protested alleged attempts by police to kill their leader, Khaleda Zia.
Google | 1999 Police clashed with protestors seeking the resignation of Prime Minister Hasina. Opposition parties called for a 3-day general strike.
Google | 2001 In Dhaka a general strike for the resignation of prime minister Sheikh Hasina left 3 people dead after supporters and opponents clashed with guns and homemade bombs.
Google | 2004 An angry mob set fire to a passenger train and protesters clashed with police across the country, leaving dozens of people injured, as violence spread a day after a grenade attack on an opposition rally killed 19 people.
Google | 2004 Countrywide hartal observed, called by the main opposition Awami League, 11-party alliance and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Inu) protesting recent grenade attacks on AL rally in the capital and demanding immediate resignation of the ruling coalition.
Google | 2004 A general strike to protest a recent grenade attack that killed 20 people at an opposition political rally brought Bangladesh to a near standstill.
Google | 2005 Bangladesh was hit by a nationwide strike called by the opposition to protest a wave of bombings earlier in the week linked to an Islamic extremist group.
Google | 2006 Around 150 people injured in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country in clashes between police Awami League led 14-party opposition's siege programme demanding electoral reforms, resignation of the chief election commissioner and two election commissioners.
Google | 2006 The Awami League (AL) led 14-party opposition alliance enforces a dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country to protest the killing of seven people by the law enforcers at Phulbari in Dinajpur on August 26, 2006.
Google | 2006 Police in Dhaka baton-charged thousands of opposition supporters in violent clashes outside the prime minister's office that left at least 110 people injured. A 14-party opposition alliance led by the Awami League is demanding electoral reforms ahead of national elections.
Google | 2006 Downtown Dhaka turned into a fierce battlefield with thousands of AL workers clashing with Jamaat supporters at Paltan for seven hours and with police at Bangabandhu Avenue and Golapshah Mazar that left at least six killed.
Google | 2006 Under caretake government of Iajudding Ahmed, police truck runs over AL led 14-party coalition men, killing 1 in Karwan Bazar; rail line uprooted in Mymensingh, train derails injuring 50.
Google | 2006 Activists set fire to five election commission offices as the Awami League alliance, led by Khaleda's rival Sheikh Hasina, tries to force out election officials.
Google | 2006 President Iajuddin Ahmed deployed the army to maintain order across the country after his interim government failed to end a political standoff over electoral reforms.
Google | 2007 Clashes between police and students demanding an end to emergency rule spilled into the streets of the capital, prompting the government to impose an indefinite curfew in six cities.
Google | 2007 Army-backed interim government briefly relaxed a curfew, allowing residents of the capital the chance to stock up on essentials and those stranded at airports and elsewhere to return home.
Google | 2007 HuJI-B operations commander Mufti Mohammad Hannan and two other cadres of the outfit confessed to carrying out the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on the Awami League rally at Dhaka with the intent of killing the AL President Sheikh Hasina.
Google | 2008 An ordinance promulgated by the President repealed the Emergency Powers Ordinance 2007 and Emergency Powers Rules 2007, thereby ending the state of emergency and restoring fundamental rights. The state of emergency had been enforced on January 11, 2007 amid political turmoil over the ninth parliamentary polls.
Google | 2008 The state of emergency declared on January 11, 2007 restricting civil and political rights for almost two years was officially lifted.
Google | 2010 The opposition BNP enforced the first nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike since the AL-led government came to power in January 2009.
Google | 2013 Bangladesh police banned all rallies in Dhaka for the rest of the day after at least 31 people died in clashes between police and large numbers of Islamic hardliners demanding that the government enact an anti-blasphemy law.
Google | 2013 At least 15 people have been killed and hundreds wounded as the 2nd day of an opposition strike demanded elections be held under a non-partisan administration.
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