Activists from Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami set fire to a pile of cotton material on a street during the first day of a two-day-long strike to protest against the decision by the country's war crimes tribunal to deliver judgement in the cases involving their top leaders in Dhaka March 3, 2013. Bangladesh deployed troops on Sunday to a town where eight people were killed in clashes between police and Islamist party supporters protesting against the conviction of party leaders on charges stemming from the country's 1971 independence war. Bangladesh has been rocked by protests and counter-protests since January, when a tribunal set up by the government to investigate abuses during the war of independence against Pakistan handed down its first conviction, sentencing a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party in absentia to death. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
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