Dhaka, Jan 2
The violence in Bangladesh was political in nature, a daily said Thursday, rueing that "women, children and even minority communities also fell victim".
An editorial in the Daily Star said that the "alarming rise in human rights violations that the year 2013 saw was to a large extent traceable to violence of political nature".
"The worst aspect of it all was that not only activists of ruling and opposition parties, but women, children and even minority communities also fell victims to political violence."
General elections in Bangladesh are scheduled for Sunday.
According to an estimate, the "death figure from such violence was 507", said the daily.
By:IANS