Bangladesh PM Orders Arrest Of Unruly Students

Police said more than 200 students were injured in the clashes over the past one month in Dhaka and other places.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ordered law enforcement agencies on Wednesday to arrest unruly students on university campuses, where violence has erupted since she took office last month.

"Arrest anyone seeking to cause indiscipline and unrest in the universities and other campuses across the country," Hasina said at a rally of students belonging to her Awami League in Dhaka.

More than 200 students were injured over the past month in Dhaka and elsewhere as rival groups of students aligned with political parties clashed on campus.

The Awami League's student unit has been disbanded at Jahangirnagar University, near the capital Dhaka, following battles between rivals using bombs and guns, police and university officials said.

"No one should assume that the government or law enforcing agents would spare them because of their political affiliation or identity while dealing with trouble-mongers," Hasina said.

Hasina's party swept to power in the Dec. 29 election, winning more than a two-thirds majority in parliament and ending two years of rule by an unelected interim authority.

The peaceful elections had sparked hopes the country would achieve a degree of political stability and good governance and attract much needed aid and investment for the impoverished South Asian country of more than 140 million people.