Bangladesh: Violent protests reduced, telecommunications partially restored

Bangladesh Wednesday after the ongoing violent protests subsided Telecommunication Services have been partially restored.

The number of people who have lost their lives has reached 150 during the ongoing protests against government job quotas in Bangladesh.

Protests across the country since Sunday have eased since the Supreme Court’s ruling, in which the country’s highest court overruled the High Court’s decision to restore the 56 percent quota in government jobs abolished in 2018. The quota for sectors was reduced to 7 percent.

After which the government of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid announced on Tuesday to implement the decision of the Supreme Court.

Demonstrations The curfew imposed by the government last week has also been relaxed following the reduction, officials said. Will be open until

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After which the normal movement of people was also seen in the capital Dhaka.

The protesting students have given the government a fresh ultimatum of another 48 hours to meet four other conditions of the eight-point list of demands and said they will come up with the next list after that deadline expires on Thursday. Will announce.

“We want the government to fulfill our four-point demands, which include restoration of internet, withdrawal of police from campuses and opening of universities (which have been closed for a week),” protest coordinator Naheed Islam said.

What causes violent protests?

Students across the country are angry over rising youth unemployment and 32 million people losing jobs or education, and have called for an end to the 30 percent quota for ‘Freedom Mujahideen’ families. have been.

The protests intensified after Prime Minister Hasina Wajid did not fulfill the demands of the protesters and labeled them as ‘volunteers’. The term label is used for those who collaborated with the Pakistan Army in the 1971 war.