2024-07-19 12:43:35
Deadly fighting, banning the internet in the country… In Bangladesh, the number of victims during student demonstrations that contested the partition system for recruitment into the administration has reached 50 deaths this Friday. What is happening in this Asian country, its neighbor India and why are students protesting across the country? 20 minutes make a point.
Recruitment of civil servants in question
Bangladesh has 1.9 million civil service jobs, more than half of which are offered under labor laws, with 30% reserved for children of war since the 1971 war. In 2018, student protests have pressured the former administration to reduce the quota system, finally reversed in June by the country’s Supreme Court. Which caused the anger of the students.
The latter believe that the distribution of their opportunities to access stable jobs is rare in a country of 170 million inhabitants. They want them to be limited to minorities and those with disabilities, saying that this assignment is being used for the benefit of loyalists of the ruling party, Awami Society.
Defective displays
Student protests began on July 1 with the blocking of the main road and train routes. They have continued every day since then, with university students joining the rallies, although the Supreme Court suspended the partition program on July 10 for a month and urged the protesters to return. to class.
Violence escalated on Thursday with 32 dead and more than 700 people injured, including 104 police officers and 30 journalists, according to the local television channel Freedom Television.
How the government does it
The government on Tuesday ordered the renewed closure of schools and universities across the country, deploying paramilitary forces to maintain order in several cities.
Police raided the headquarters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Tuesday night, arresting seven members of its student wing. He announced this day that one of the leaders of this group, the main opposition army in the country, had been arrested.
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On Thursday, the government blocked internet access across the country. Protesters have vowed to continue the demonstrations without incident, while rights NGOs and the United Nations have urged the government not to resort to violence.
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