The reason for the protests? The government invalidated national medical exam test results for about 2 million students.
But the issues that gave rise to the youth movement run deeper, and they include widening economic inequality, high youth unemployment and an erosion of free speech rights, according to Reuters interviews with dozens of people during six days of protests.
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