DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Some 14,000 police officers fanned out across Bangladesh's capital on Thursday to keep order during a dawn-to-dusk general strike that shut down schools and shops across the country in protest of a recent hike in fuel prices.
The strike was called by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies after the government raised all fuel prices last weekend by up to 19 percent as part of its plan to reduce government subsidies.
Strikes are a common opposition tactic to highlight demands in Bangladesh, an impoverished South Asian nation. The opposition says the increase in fuel prices is unacceptable because …
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