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Ahh.. Bangladesh… 🙂

Bangladesh is a country where even a child is not safe from the police.

Al Jazeera English
BBC News

Six months after a controversial election delivered a third consecutive victory to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the government of Bangladesh is faced with the most serious outbreak of public unrest in a decade. The January elections were marred by an opposition boycott, but the challenge the government faces this month comes from university students with no apparent political affiliation.

The students have been protesting since the beginning of July, demanding an end to a quota system for government jobs that allocates 56% to applicants from special categories and the remaining 44% to general applicants. That, students say, discriminates against most applicants with the required qualifications.

📷: AP

https://www.voanews.com/a/student-protests-in-bangladesh-pose-serious-challenge-for-hasina-s-government-/7704991.html

📷: Smoke rises from burning vehicles after protesters set them on fire near the Disaster Management Directorate office, during the ongoing anti-quota protest in Dhaka, July 18, 2024.

👉 Television news channels in Bangladesh were off the air and telecommunications were widely disrupted Friday amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in which nearly two dozen people have been killed this week.

There was no immediate word from the government.

French news agency AFP reported that the death toll in Thursday's violence had risen to 32. Reuters had reported that 13 people were killed, adding to six dead earlier in the week, and could not immediately verify the higher number.

There was fresh violence in some parts of the country Friday and police were using tear gas to disperse protesters, a Reuters photographer said.

https://www.voanews.com/a/bangladesh-tv-news-off-air-communications-widely-disrupted-as-student-protests-spike/7704501.html

Bangladesh has been cut off from all international communication. There is no cellular network and no internet service.

I’m trying to reach my family but can’t connect with them in any way. It’s unbelievable that the country is isolated from the entire world. I never imagined this could happen in an independent nation.