The World - News from Nov. 11, 1988
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About 20,000 protesters rallied in the streets of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, and demanded that President Hussain Mohammed Ershad resign to pave the way for parliamentary elections. The demonstrators, shouting anti-government slogans, gathered in five separate rallies to mark the anniversary of a violent campaign launched Nov. 10, 1987 to topple the president. Ershad’s Jatiya Party won a parliamentary majority in disputed March 3 elections that were boycotted by the 20 major opposition parties.
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