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Bangladesh protesters, vowing to ‘guard revolution’, beat Hasina supporters

Protesters rough up a supporter of the ousted PM Sheikh Hasina's party, suspecting him of paying respect to her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his death anniversary, outside his residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh [Rajib Dhar/AP]

Hundreds of student protesters and political activists, vowing to guard Bangladesh’s student-led “revolution”, have attacked the supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and prevented them from reaching the house of her father, the assassinated independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The rally was called on Thursday by the supporters of Hasina’s Awami League party to mark the anniversary of the August 15, 1975 assassination of Rahman and other members of his family during a military coup. Hasina survived along with her younger sister because they were visiting Germany.

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