Bangladesh Students Step Up Protests To Press PM Sheikh Hasina's Resignation

Rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of mayhem in July that killed more than 200 people in Bangladesh in some of the worst unrest of Sheikh Hasina's 15-year tenure.

Bangladeshi student leaders on Saturday said they would carry on a planned nationwide civil disobedience campaign until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned following last month's deadly police crackdown on protesters.

Rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of mayhem in July that killed more than 200 people in some of the worst unrest of Hasina's 15-year tenure.

Troop deployments briefly restored order but crowds returned to the streets in huge numbers this week ahead of an all-out non-cooperation movement aimed at paralysing the government planned to begin on Sunday.