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Khaleda Zia rejects 'rigged' poll
We wuz robbed, I tells ya! Robbed! Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, defeated in Monday's parliamentary elections, has rejected the results saying the vote was rigged. "We have confirmed reports of rigging and other irregularities in many polling stations across the country," she told reporters in Dhaka. I seen it with my own tear stained eyes, I tells ya! Election officials said earlier that Ms Zia's rival Sheikh Hasina's Awami League had won a landslide victory. The poll was mostly praised by media, monitors and the world community. On Tuesday, at least one person was killed and more than a dozen were injured in clashes between rival political activists in the northern Pabna area, officials said. The election follows two years of army-backed rule in the country. Posted by: Fred 2008-12-31 |
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