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Bangladesh minister defends gov’t response to protests amid calls for probe

The Bangladeshi army patrols in an armored vehicle along the Dhaka-Chittagong highway, in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka, on July 23 [Rajib Dhar/AP Photo]

Bangladesh’s minister of state for information and broadcasting has defended the government’s handling of mass protests, as United Nations experts called for an independent investigation into the government’s deadly crackdown on demonstrators.

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera on Thursday, Mohammad Arafat said the country’s security forces had done everything “to bring back the peace” amid the student protests.

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