(16 Jul 2024)
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Dhaka, Bangladesh – 16 July 2024
1. Protesters running at the Science Laboratory roundabout in Dhaka
2. Police and ruling party supporters fleeing
3. Ruling party supporters pelting brickbats
4. Various of protesters blocking the Science Laboratory roundabout
5. Various of protesters vandalise bus
6. Various of student wing of the ruling Awami League party, Bangladesh Chhatra League stage rally, chanting and holding banners
7. SOUNDBITE (Bangla): Tanvir Hasan Saikat, student leader of wing of the ruling Awami League party:
“Drawing attention of the students, we will say that their demand is rational. We were all in support of their cause. But some are using the students’ emotions as a political weapon. Students should remain alert that no-one can use their emotion as a political weapon. We also want to say to students that we were always with the students and we are with them.”
8. Various of protesters stage rally, chanting and holding banners
9. SOUNDBITE (Bangla): Mohammed Raihan, student of Dhaka university:
“If we see the current situation of Bangladesh, I don’t think children of freedom fighters have the age to quality for the job, they are too old for the job. I don’t think the grandchildren of freedom fighters should get a quota of jobs, as one generation has already had the chance to take the quota. If I take part in the freedom fight and something bad happens, that can affect my children’s life, not my grandchildren’s. So for that, freedom fighters can get benefits for the one time, and they got that. So we are saying that there shouldn’t be any more benefits. However, we are not saying to abolish the quota system, we are talking about reforming the system.”
10. Various of protesters pelting brickbats, throwing marble balls using slingshots
11. Various of ruling party supporters pelting brickbats, firing from a gun
12. Various of people moving injured person
13. Various of motorcycle on fire
14. Various of police entering Dhaka university
STORYLINE:
At least 5 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 scheme local media reports said quoting officials.
At least three of the dead were students and one was a pedestrian, the media reports said.
Another man who died in Dhaka remained unidentified.
The deaths were reported Tuesday after an overnight violence at a public university near Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka.
The violence involved members of a pro-government student body and other students, when police fired tear gas and charged the protesters with batons during the clashes which spread at Jahangir Nagar University in Savar, outside Dhaka, according to students and authorities.
Protesters have been demanding an end to a quota reserved for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, which allows them to take up 30% of governmental jobs.
They argue that quota appointments are discriminatory and should be merit-based.
Some even said the current system benefits groups supporting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Some Cabinet ministers criticized the protesters, saying they played on students’ emotions.
Bengali-language Prothom Alo daily reported that one person died in Dhaka and three others, including a pedestrian, were killed after they suffered injuries during violence in Chattogram, a southeastern district, on Tuesday.
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