Bangladesh on high alert after execution of opposition figures

‘Bangladesh is on high alert following the execution of two opposition leaders for war crimes allegedly perpetrated during the South Asian country’s independence war more than four decades ago.

On Monday, paramilitary border guards and thousands of other security forces patrolled the capital, Dhaka, and other cities as part of measures to avert violence in the wake of a nationwide strike called by political party Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.

Officials doubt that many people would adhere to the call to strike. They are instead worried about the murder of four secular bloggers, a publisher, an Italian aid worker and a Japanese agriculture researcher in attacks purportedly carried out by Takfiri militants.’

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