(21 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dhaka, Bangladesh – 19 July 2024
1. Various of Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) firing towards protesters
2. Various of protesters, tear gas in distance
3. Various of BGB patrolling street
4. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, Director General of Border Guard of Bangladesh:
“Following the directive from the Prime Minister, we, the members of BGB, recovered the important structures of the government yesterday. We moved back the terrorists and aggressive people. Now you can see that they are trying to hurl stones, regroup at the adjacent places. They are trying to attack the BTV (Bangladesh Television) building, but the building is under the control of the BGB. Members of the police and RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) also joined with us. We are pledge-bound to ensure that there remains no problem at this place."
5. Various of protesters, some throwing objects, fires in road
6. Various of police, some officers firing rubber bullets and tear gas
7. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Mohammed Barek, protester:
“Why we took to the street? We are a middle-class family. My son passed his higher secondary certificate exam and I am educating him so that he can get a job. The reason we are joining them is so that if our children have the merit they will get jobs. But now children of freedom fighters, who have no merit, get the job easily.”
8. Police firing
STORYLINE:
Members of the Bangladesh Border Guard helped to curb the unrest in the country’s capital as protesters took to the streets over a controversial quota system for government job applicants.
Students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have been demanding an end to a quota that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971.
The protests turned deadly on Tuesday, a day after students at Dhaka University began clashing with police.
Violence continued to escalate as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and hurled smoke grenades to scatter stone-throwing protesters.
Mohammed Barek said he had been out in the streets to fight for better opportunities for his son.
The country’s top court on Sunday scaled back the quota system in a partial victory for protesters after days of deadly clashes between police and demonstrators.
Ruling on an appeal, the Supreme Court ordered that the veterans’ quota be cut to 5%, with 93% of jobs to be allocated on merit. The remaining 2% will be set aside for members of ethnic minorities and transgender and disabled people.
Bangladeshi authorities haven’t shared any official numbers of those killed and injured in the protests, but at least four local newspapers on Sunday reported that over 100 people have been killed.
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