Bangladesh

Date: May 13th, 2002 |

General strikes called by opposition parties crippled the country February 11. Five people were killed and hundreds injured. Another strike was planned during municipal elections February 22-25, and during these strikes businesses, ports, public buildings and transportation are usually shut down. Violence is common. More strikes are likely. Expect difficulties if traveling at these times, [read more]

Bangladesh

Date: November 7th, 2001 |

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Monsoon rains have brought severe flooding to Bangladesh’s Comilla district, displacing some 70,000 people, affecting half a million and threatening to wash out the highway linking the capital of Dhaka and Chittagong, the country’s main port. The weather pattern suggests it’ll get worse before it gets better. The coastal areas were also rocked by a [read more]

Bangladesh

Date: August 14th, 2001 |

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Banditry has increased dramatically in recent weeks on the roads between Dhaka and Aricha, Dhaka and Barisal, and Barisal and Banaripari. Several overnight buses have been held up either by bandits posing as passengers or gangs blocking roads. Avoid overnight b [read more]

Bangladesh

Date: May 30th, 2001 |

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Elections here are usually accompanied by violence, and trouble has already come even though the next election won’t be held until mid-2001. A bomb at a political rally in Dhaka Jan. 20 killed four people and sparked a general strike that paralyzed the capital city the next day. Such strikes are common, shut down public [read more]

Bangladesh

Date: May 30th, 2001 |

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Violence has escalated in recent weeks during general strikes known as hartals called to force the ruling Awami League government to step down. During such strikes all transport is banned, and people have been pulled from rickshaws, taxis and cars and harassed. Only essential travel around the country should be undertaken at this time, and [read more]

Bangladesh

Date: May 13th, 2002 |

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Bangladesh

Date: August 28th, 2001 |

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General elections will be held Oct. 1, and because of the country’s history of violence before and during elections, some 60,000 additional security personnel will be deployed throughout the country to maintain order. Significant violence, including some 40 deaths, has occurred around the country in clashes between the two major political parties since the government [read more]

Bangladesh

Date: June 19th, 2001 |

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The worst bombing in Bangladesh’s history occurred at an office of the ruling Awami League June 16, killed 22 and injured many others. Ultra-right members of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party are being blamed by the government in what appears to be an attempt to influence elections planned for October. Such political violence in the [read more]

Bangladesh

Date: May 30th, 2001 |

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Three European engineers working on a Danish road project in the southeastern part of the country were kidnapped Feb. 16 in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Their abductors, believed to be tribal insurgents, took them into the jungle and are demanding a ransom. In Dhaka and the port city of Chittagong, a general strike protesting the [read more]