DHAKA, Banglades (AP) — Three people were killed and dozens injured in two separate incidents in Bangladesh as violence continued Tuesday on university campuses in the nation's capital and elsewhere over a government jobs quota system, local media re
DHAKA, Banglades — Three people were killed and dozens injured in two separate incidents in Bangladesh as violence continued Tuesday on university campuses in the nation's capital and elsewhere over a government jobs quota system, local media reports said.The deaths were reported Tuesday after an overnight violence at a public university near Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka.
Dhaka-based Daily Star newspaper reported that two persons including a pedestrian were killed as they suffered injuries during violence in Chattogram, a southeastern district, on Tuesday. Hasina said Tuesday that war veterans — commonly known as “freedom fighters” — should receive the highest respect for their sacrifice in 1971 regardless of their current political ideologies.
But Abdullahil Kafi, a senior police official, told the country’s leading English-language newspaper Daily Star that they fired tear gas and “blank rounds” as protesters attacked the police. He said up to 15 police officers were injured. On Tuesday, protesters blocked railways and some highways across the country, and in Dhaka, they halted traffic in many areas as they vowed to continue demonstrating until the demands were met.Swapon, a protester and student of Dhaka University who only gave his first name, said they only want the “rational reformation of the quota system.” He said after studying for six years, if he can't find a job, “it will cause me and my family to suffer.
The family of the veterans’ quota system was halted following a court order after mass student protests in 2018. But last month, Bangladesh’s High Court nulled the decision to reinstate the system once more, angering scores of students and triggering protests.
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