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DHAKA — Television news channels in Bangladesh were off the air and telecommunications were widely disrupted on Friday (July 19) amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in which nearly two dozen people have been killed this week.
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi citizens took to the streets on Thursday, joining university students demanding an overhaul of how government jobs are distributed.
DHAKA — Thirteen people were killed as thousands of students armed with sticks and rocks clashed with armed police in Dhaka on Thursday (July 18), the worst day of violence so far in protests in Bangladesh against a policy that sets quotas for the allocation of government jobs.
Analysts say the move could have been triggered by recent legal wins for the PTI — but could backfire on the government.
Protests in Bangladesh against the reimposition of a quota system for government jobs have turned deadly. Dozens of people were killed in demonstrations calling for an end to the quota system, which favours the children of fighters in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Thursday on a man from Sierra Leone for allegedly smuggling thousands of migrants from Asia and Africa into the United States.
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.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has been gripped by violence this week after relentless clashes between student protesters, security officials and pro-government student activists over a quota system for government jobs.