https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4unWil9YiU

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) Police imposed a strict curfew with a “shoot-on-sight” order across Bangladesh as military forces patrolled parts of the capital Saturday after scores were killed and hundreds injured in clashes over the allocation of civil service jobs.

The curfew began at midnight and was relaxed from noon to 2 p.m. for people to run essential errands, and is expected to last until 10 a.m. Sunday, allowing officers to fire on mobs in extreme cases, said lawmaker Obaidul Quader, the general secretary of the ruling Awami League party.

The demonstrations called for mainly by student groups started weeks ago to protest a quota system that reserves up to 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. Violence erupted Tuesday, with the Daily Prothom Alo newspaper reporting the death of at least 103 people.

Friday was likely to be the deadliest day so far; Somoy TV reported 43 killed, while an Associated Press reporter saw 23 bodies at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, but it was not immediately clear whether they all died on Friday. On Thursday, 22 others were reported dead as protesting students attempted to “completely shut down” the country.

The United States Embassy in Dhaka said Friday that reports indicated “hundreds to possibly thousands” were injured across Bangladesh. It said the situation was “extremely volatile.”

Bangladeshi authorities haven’t shared any official numbers of those killed and injured.

Officials said the curfew was to quell further violence after police and protesters clashed in the streets and at university campuses in Dhaka and other cities across the South Asian country. Authorities blocked online communications by banning mobile and internet services. Several television news channels also went off the air, and the websites of most local newspapers were down. Meanwhile, some key government websites, including Bangladesh’s central bank and the prime minister’s office, appeared to have been hacked and defaced.

Local media also reported that some 800 inmates fled from a prison in Narsingdi, a district north of the capital, after protesters stormed the facility and set it on fire Friday.

The chaos highlights cracks in Bangladesh’s governance and economy and the frustration of youths who lack good jobs upon graduation. They also represent the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina since she won a fourth consecutive term in office after January’s elections, boycotted by the main opposition groups.

Protesters argue the quota system is discriminatory and benefits supporters of Hasina, whose Awami League party led the independence movement, saying it should be replaced with a merit-based system. Hasina has defended the quota system, saying that veterans deserve the highest respect for their contributions in the war against Pakistan, regardless of their political affiliation.

Representatives from both sides met late Friday in an attempt to reach a resolution. At least three student leaders were present and demanded the reform of the current quota system, the reopening of student dormitories shut by the police following the clashes and for some university officials to step down after failing to protect campuses from the violence. Law Minister Anisul Huq said late Friday the government was open to discussing their demands.

The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has backed the protests, vowing Friday to organize its own demonstrations as many of its supporters joined the students’ protests. However, BNP said in a statement its followers were not responsible for the violence and denied the ruling party’s accusations of using the protests for political gains.

The Awami League and the BNP have often accused each other of fueling political chaos and violence, most recently ahead of the country’s national election, which was marred by a crackdown on several opposition figures. Hasina’s government had accused the opposition party of attempting to disrupt the vote.

In 2018, the government halted the job quotas following mass student protests. But in June, Bangladesh’s High Court nullified that decision and reinstated the quotas after relatives of 1971 veterans filed petitions. The Supreme Court suspended the ruling, pending an appeal hearing, and said in a statement it will take the issue up Sunday.

Hasina has called on protesters to wait for the court’s verdict.

https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-student-protests-curfew-government-jobs-quota-9af35994b4855ffac9bd962861447cda

Why the shoot-on-sight order by the government, that's unacceptable


Meanwhile, Nigerian students and the youths in general enjoy suffering and smiling, nobody wants to die, so how can Nigeria be good

Already this people by nature are hostile if not the most hostile people on earth. Their mind is harder than rock. Just that theirs is somewhat under control but if they should exercise what's in them Hamas and other muslim nations who portrayed hard mind is a joke. Indians are second to them. If they tell you you're dead, no amount of plea will change their mind. So, it's quite understandable why their government took this kind of hostile decision.

Some people benefiting from the government and some tribal jingoists would want the same for those planning the purported protest in Nigeria. Never have I seen very self-centered people like that

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Preview of August 1 if you love your life don't join any protest. Don't allow yourself to become a scrificial goat, those who died during ENDSARS died 4 nothing no one remembers them or even check up on the family they left behind.

Let's implement this kind of measures on ANY disguising sore loser protesting on the street of Lagos.

OBIdient criminals should take note.


Zonefree, go and protest in Imo

Let's see how the world will see it and compare how it will be seen if it happened in Africa.

Augustine2244:
Alas! This is one of the Muslim countries that practice Honour Killings "
Alongside Iran, Pakistan and Somalia.
No wonder Donald Trump imposed his controversial Muslim ban on them.
Anyways,they can annihilate themselves for all I care.
One of the world's greatest problems is Religious Extremism.

You are a religion extremist too...
Kenyans protest over increased tax, the government responded with some measures before it later submit, there wasn't a religious undertone.

Bangladesh are protesting over lopsided civil servants appointment, their government responded with brutality, and you came into a conclusion that Muslims are bad

If there's a shooting in the west especially US, and the shooter is a Christian, it will be attributed to mental issues

If there is a stabbing in France, and the culprit is a Muslim, it will be a case of Islamic terrorism.

I said this before, Thomas Matthew Cook, a Jew and the shooter of Fmr President Trump, had it been, the name is Muslim related, it will be a case of Islamic Terrorism

Ppl always say but why is there a problem in the middle east, why are those Muslims dominant countries prone to violent etc..

Middle Easterns have been living in peace before the invasion of westerners...

The West will invade a country living in relative peace in the name of liberation and start justifying the invasion after..

Iraq, Afghanistan were invaded on the pretext that they have nuclear weapons, till date, it has not been proven.
Libya was one of the best country in Africa till Obama invaded under the guise of liberation, Now Libya is the source of nearly all the Islamic terrorist bedevilling the Western Sahara

When discussing on public forum, let's be critical and sensible and always maintain decorum.

There is a reason we are gifted that grey matter in between our skulls

Shalom
PS: I am no supporter of terrorism in whatever guise but the western propaganda and misconception is irritating

Imagine

God1000:
Why the shoot-on-sight order by the government


Meanwhile Nigerian students and the youths in general enjoy suffering and smiling

Bitter Obidients want to see the country burn
Terrible folk

Shoot on sight will soon happen here .

i think una no deh hear word ?

we deh wait for una protest .

make una come tell me how govt go plant cassava for una to eat garri .

shoot on sight? + blood thirsty government

Ok

No body will protest here......

Let everybody keep on suffering and smiling......

So that nobody will be held responsible should the protest go south........

Our mumu go must win world cup las las by the time these Nigerian politicians are done with us

The same Bangladesh Obi uses as reference point? Werey ni boy Obi ye

Bitter grieving Pandora obituary and LP supporters should assemble their protest in Anambra or abia state,they should keep off in Lagos

God1000:
Why the shoot-on-sight order by the government


Meanwhile Nigerian students and the youths in general enjoy suffering and smiling

Not Nigerian students but the Ronu miscreants

God1000:
Why the shoot-on-sight order by the government


Meanwhile Nigerian students and the youths in general enjoy suffering and smiling

It's better to stay alive than to die from the bullet... Besides many Nigerians are balling. Go to all parks, garden, lounge and clubs They're all packed with people balling. Go and hustle and stop complaining

And Bangladesh, which used to be an extremely poor country, is now even doing better than India economically in many areas.

The thing is, the Internet has opened the eyes of billions of poor people around the world to what is happening in so-called 'sane' countries in a way that was not possible 10 or 15 years ago.

Citizens eyes have 'opened'. They are now impatient with politicians. The lies that politicians used to tell no longer wash.

Bangladesh is making tremendous progress towards becoming a middle- income country. Yet, its Citizens are not happier than when the country was extremely poor just a few years ago.

Citizens around the world just want to fight their governments. People are frustrated. For whatever reason. They just want to protest. They want to destroy.

People want vengeance against politicians for everything that has happened in their countries. Even things that happened 30, 40, 50 years ago. They don't care. They have had enough.

Unfortunately for politicians, they can't find a miracle anywhere to solve the myriad of problems.

That is why citizens in countries that are supposedly making progress are just as unhappy and frustrated.

ThatFairGuy1:
Let's implement this kind of measures on ANY disguising sore loser protesting on the street of Lagos.

OBIdient criminals should take note.


Zonefree, go and protest in Imo

You leave your state Osun dey claim Lagos.Maybe you are even one of my tenants in Lagos

Make Tinubu no try am here o

spiSeyi:
Preview of August 1 if you love your life don't join any protest. Don't allow yourself to become a scrificial goat, those who died during ENDSARS died 4 nothing no one remembers them or even check up on the family they left behind.

. CowArd

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