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Classes Resume At Bangladesh University At Heart Of Protests

As protests swelled in July, authorities shuttered the campus as part of a crackdown on the demonstrations that killed hundreds (Credit: AFP)

Students returned to classes at Bangladesh's Dhaka University on Sunday after a weeks-long shutdown sparked by a student-led uprising that toppled autocratic prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

Tens of thousands demonstrated on campus and in the surrounding Shahbagh neighbourhood as protests against job quotas morphed into a nationwide struggle to end Hasina's 15 years of iron-fisted rule.

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