Authorities deployed soldiers in a northern Bangladeshi district Sunday after activists of the country's "Jamaat-e-Islami" party clashed with police, leaving three people dead during a nationwide general strike called to denounce an ongoing war crimes trial. Separately two people died Sunday in a northwestern district during similar clashes. With the latest casualties, the death toll in days of rioting has risen to 51 since Thursday after a war crimes tribunal sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee to death for atrocities committed during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war, according to a report of the Associated Press. Sayedee, 73, is the third defendant to be convicted by the tribunal, which was set up in 2010 by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government.
