Bangladesh lifts emergency rule

Bangladesh lifts emergency rule

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Bangladesh's army-backed interim government has lifted a two-year state of emergency ahead of the general election on 29 December.

President Iajuddin Ahmed signed the order earlier in the week.

Lifting curbs on political and civil rights and press freedom was a key demand of the main political parties.

Full campaigning began last Friday with Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) taking on the Awami League, led by her old rival Sheikh Hasina.

Both women are former prime ministers. They have both faced corruption allegations and were released on bail in deals with the government to ensure their parties took part in the elections.

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this is good news for bangladesh, yesterday was victory day when Pakistani control was lost.


hopefully corruption in the new goverment be fixed, meaning new goverment that is elected in will do more for the country then it has done in the last few decades of protests and strikes which have kept the countrys econemy held back.

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