Students clash with Hasina supporters on Bangladesh's National Mourning Day
Dozens of protesters, who were part of the student-led movement that ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, gathered on the streets of Dhaka to deter any rally by her supporters on Thursday (Aug 15), the country's former public holiday -- National Mourning Day.
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00:00Dozens of protesters, who were part of the student-led movement that ousted Bangladeshi
00:08Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, gathered on the streets of Dhaka to deter any rally by
00:14her supporters on Thursday, the country's former public holiday, National Mourning Day.
00:20The day was designated to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Hasina's father and
00:24President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 under Hasina's regime.
00:30The protesters, many of them students, wielded sticks and flags while crowding around and
00:35shouting at individuals wearing black, whom they believed to be Hasina supporters.
00:41Several protesters prevented Reuters from filming them during the clashes.
00:45Around 300 people died in student-led demonstrations that began as protests against employment
00:50quotas but later spiralled into a movement seeking Hasina's overthrow.
00:56An interim government, led by Nobel Prize-winning economist Mohamed Younis, has been appointed
01:01to plug a power vacuum and hold elections.