Within hours, thousands ofuniversity students demanding his death poured into the streets ofDhaka, the seeds of what has grown into a mass protest that has exposed again the unhealed wounds from the nation's 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.
Mullah had been a loyal servant of the Jamaat-e-Islami since his days at DhakaUniversity and was a member of the party's inner circle of decision-makers, says BBC Bengali editor Sabir Mustafa.