CNN PRODUCER NOTE     Since February, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The rallies, led by youths and fueled by social media, are demanding the death penalty for those who took part in war crimes during Bangladesh's bloody battle for independence from Pakistan more than four decades ago.

In Bangladesh, the fourth most populous Muslim country, this peaceful movement, called the Shahbag, is fighting for a ban on extreme fundamentalist parties.

But Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, is growing louder. Islamist groups clashed with police in Dhaka in late February, killing 4 people. And when combined with other violent Jamaat clashes, at least 24 people were killed in February. Read more about the story on CNN.

Rallies in solidarity of the movement have occurred throughout the U.S. as well. iReporter ColinMarts was right outside Harvard Yard in early March when he saw one of these rallies. In this iReporter's opinion, 'That violence in their opinion is based on not justice, and they were calling for a stop to the wrongful murders occurring,' he said.
- zdan, CNN iReport producer