(22 Jul 2024)
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Dhaka, Bangladesh – 22 July 2024
1. Various of military personnel in street during curfew imposed by government
2. Various of armoured vehicles on patrol
3. Various of traffic
4. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Abdul Baten, Dhaka resident:
“People who are dependent on their daily incomes are suffering the most. People could have loved the government if the people were in peace, prices of essentials were under control. Now no one loves the incumbent government because the prices of daily necessary items is not under control, in fact nothing is under control. Businessmen are not in peace. Daily labourers are also not in peace.”
5. Various of people and children playing cricket and carrom (board game)
6. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Mohammed Sajahan, businessman:
“We cannot communicate with anyone as there is no internet connectivity. We cannot go to the market; children cannot go to school. We can’t go outside of our home, when we step out of our home, we need to go to the police. Law enforcers detain us. Army personnel are present here and there and no one can move in any direction.”
7. Various of police patrolling and carrying out checks
8. Various of armoured and other police vehicles patrolling Dhaka-Chattogram highway
9. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Habibur Rahman, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner:
“We are finding out conspirators, goons and miscreants hiding out in nearby places. We are conducting raids by visiting houses and areas to find them out. Police established their control in the areas including the sensitive ones where they created their fortresses.”
10. Police in armoured vehicles patrolling Dhaka-Chattogram highway
STORYLINE:
Bangladesh remained without internet for a fifth day and the government declared a public holiday on Monday, as authorities maintained tight control despite apparent calm following a court order that scaled back a controversial system for allocating government jobs that sparked violent protests.
This comes after a curfew with a shoot-on-sight order was installed days earlier and military personnel could be seen patrolling the capital and other areas.
The South Asian country witnessed clashes between the police and mainly student protesters 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 violence has killed more than a hundred people, according to at least four local newspapers.
Authorities have not so far shared official figures for deaths.
There was no immediate violence reported on Monday morning after the Supreme Court ordered, the day before, the veterans’ quota to be cut to 5%.
Thus, 93% of civil service jobs will be merit-based while the remaining 2% reserved for members of ethnic minorities as well as transgender and disabled people.
The protests have posed the most serious challenge to Bangladesh’s government since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won a fourth consecutive term in January elections that the main opposition groups boycotted.
Universities have been closed, the internet has been shut off and the government has ordered people to stay at home.
Protesters had argued the quota system was discriminatory and benefited supporters of Hasina, whose Awami League party led the independence movement, and wanted it replaced by a merit-based system.
Hasina has defended the quota system, saying that veterans deserve the highest respect regardless of political affiliation.
AP video shot by Al-Emrun Garjon
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