31.   The protests were sparked by police killings last week in the neighboring state of Maharashtra.

32.   They accused authorities of cremating thousands of people to cover up police killings.

33.   When President Farooq Leghari sacked Ms. Bhutto last November, one of the charges against her was sanctioning police killings of MQM activists, she referred to as terrorists.

34.   Amnesty International appealed Friday to Turkey to launch enquiries into the fate of people who had disappeared, believed to have been victims of police killings.

35.   The report follows a spate of police killings over the past two months.

36.   Violent clashes between rival political groups escalated throughout the country last year, with prime minister Sheikh Hasina also ordering probes into police killings of demonstrators.

37.   Narathiwat police said they could not confirm whether or not the three people killed were involved in the police killings.

38.   Thanh is the second policeman to face retrial after public outrage over police killings.

39.   That attack was in retaliation for the police killing on Friday of a bridegroom and his friend.