Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh have been staging daily protests in the heart of the capital Dhaka.<br /><br />They are demonstrating against the decisions of a war crimes tribunal that was set up to investigate those accused of abuses during Bangladesh's so called war of independence with Pakistan in 1971.<br /><br />Some say the trials are politically motivated, and others demand no less than the death penalty for the political figures who are accused and convicted.<br /><br />The protests show how deeply Bangladesh's bloody past still affects the present.
