Dozens killed in Bangladesh after Islamist leader is sentenced to death In the latest violence after Delwar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death, four policemen were killed when protesters attacked a police station in Gaibandia in the north of the country, two of whom were stabbed to death. A police constable in Chittagong also died from stab wounds. According to the local Daily Star newspaper a 22-year-old supporter of the Awami League government supporter was beaten to death by protesters in Gaibandia. A second day of protests and clashes followed a call by Jamaat-e-Islami leaders for its supporters to gather at mosques throughout the country after Friday prayers. Bangladesh's law minister said the Islamic party was "trying to plunge the nation into anarchy." The main opposition party and Jamaat ally, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by former prime minister Khaleda Zia, has accused the government of deliberately carrying out "mass killings." The 1971 war of independence, in which the Pakistan Army and local Muslim League and other Islamic party allies are accused of killing between 500,000 and three million civilians and raping thousands of women, continues to overshadow Bangladeshi politics today. Efforts to bring to justice those accused of atrocities in the war have exposed the scale of division in the country. Thousands joined protests in Dhaka's Shahbag area last month after one of the tribunals sentenced another Jamaat leader, Abdul Quader Mollah, to life imprisonment, which was widely seen as lenient. Sayedee one of ten accused of war crimes and the third to be convicted, but there has been strong criticism of the tribunals. In December last year the chairman of the tribunal hearing Sayedee's trial was forced to resign after it emerged he had been colluding with the prosecution.