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Bangladesh Hit by General Strike

   VOA News  June 12, 2011
   Bangladesh riot police detain an opposition activist, on ground, during
   a 36-hour strike that began at dawn Sunday in Dhaka, Bangladesh, June
   12, 2011

Photo: AP

   Bangladesh riot police detain an opposition activist, on ground, during
   a 36-hour strike that began at dawn Sunday in Dhaka, Bangladesh, June
   12, 2011

   For the second time this month, Bangladesh was hit Sunday by a general
   strike that closed shops and businesses and interfered with
   transportation.
   The 36-hour work stoppage was called by the opposition Bangladesh
   Nationalist Party and its Islamic ally, Jamaat-e-Islami. They are
   protesting a proposed amendment to the nation's constitution that they
   say favors the incumbent government.
   Clashes between police and strikers were reported in Dhaka, the
   capital, and several arrests were reported. The strike also was felt in
   the port city of Chittagong, the country's second largest.
   The change in the constitution proposed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
   from the ruling Awami League would scrap a system in which a
   nonpartisan caretaker government rules Bangladesh for three-months
   during an election period.

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