Posts Tagged as ‘Mutiny’

March 3, 2009

Mutiny that became a massacre

A crazy, scary past week for Dhaka:
For about five hours, bullets whizzed over rooftops and the occasional thud of mortar rounds echoed along the strangely empty streets.
Dhaka is one of the most congested cities on the planet, but for once there were no traffic jams.
Instead the army had planted rows of anti-aircraft cannons at key [...]