DHAKA ¨C Student demonstrators who ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have rejected calls from Bangladesh¡¯s two main political parties for quick elections and are considering creating their own party to sustain their movement, according to interviews with four protest leaders.
Their hope: to avoid a repeat of the last 15 years, in which Hasina ruled the country of some 170 million people with an iron fist.
In June, a handful of student leaders ¡ª most in their early-to-mid 20s ¡ª began organizing demonstrations against a law reserving coveted government jobs for certain segments of the population.
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