Bangladesh Leader Vows Crackdown on Opponents After Vote
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed ordered security forces to take tougher measures against opponents after she won a second five-year term in a boycotted election that saw more than a dozen people killed.
Hasina’s Awami League won 231 parliamentary seats of 300 in yesterday’s election, which was boycotted by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, according to unofficial results cited in The Daily Star, the nation’s top selling English-language newspaper. Police in several areas shot dead protesters who tried to storm polling stations, while arson attacks also hindered voting.