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Blinded in Bangladesh protests, students hope for better future / 36EF7P8
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Bangladeshi student Omar Faruq believes the future of his country is bright but all he can see is darkness, after police trying to crush a student-led revolution blinded him with rubber pellets.
More than 450 people were killed -- many by police fire -- in the weeks of protests leading up to the ouster of ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India on August 5 ending her 15-year autocratic rule.
But dozens of protesters were also robbed of their vision -- some in one eye, others entirely -- by the plastic or rubber grapeshot pellets police fired from shotguns.
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