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Article: Bangladesh Voting for New Rule
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- The Washington Post
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- June 12, 1996
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The last government of Bangladesh resigned because it did not
trust itself or any future government to hold free and fair
elections.
So when Bangladesh elects a new parliament Wednesday, ballots
will be cast, collected and counted under the supervision of
caretakers in an interim administration appointed to oversee the
vote.
The unprecedented ballot safeguards were adopted when the
beleaguered government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia amended the
constitution and then resigned in March after disputed national
elections in February that were boycotted by the opposition. She was
yielding to opposition demands that she step down following two
years of violent general strikes that had ...