How Bangladesh student protests grew to become a mass movement | WVN News

In Bangladesh, tens of thousands of students and their supporters have gathered in the capital - Dhaka - to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. They blame the government for a violent crackdown on dissent, which left at least 200 people dead in recent protests against government job quotas.

00:00 Tens of thousands protest in Dhaka
00:18 DW speaks with Nusrat Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College in Massachusetts, US, and author of "Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh"
00:00 WVN speaks with Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil, who lives in Sweden and is Editor in Chief of Netra News