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For days, university students in Bangladesh have been locked in deadly clashes with the police and supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party, in which at least 19 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured.
More than 600 people were killed during weeks-long violence in Bangladesh, the UN Human Rights Office said in a preliminary report.
Bangladesh has experienced unrest for almost a month following a mass student movement demanding the abolition of the job quota system. This escalated into violent clashes that have seen police, army, paramilitary forces and pro-government groups attacking the protesters.
The authorities in Bangladesh ordered a nationwide curfew and deployed the army as clashes between student-led protesters and the police and paramilitary forces killed dozens of people and brought Dhaka, the nation’s capital, to a halt.
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi citizens took to the streets on Thursday, joining university students demanding an overhaul of how government jobs are distributed.
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi citizens took to the streets on Thursday, joining students who have been agitating for weeks about a quota system for government jobs that benefits certain groups, including the descendants of those who fought for independence from Pakistan.
Bangladesh deployed a paramilitary force on Tuesday after at least five people were killed during violent demonstrations by thousands of university students, raising the specter of instability in a country familiar with protests.
The Hafiz Gul Bahadur armed group, which operates out of Afghanistan, claims responsibility for the deadly assault.