Moscow. The death toll in clashes in Bangladesh between the opposition, the ruling Awami League party, and security forces has risen to 73, the daily reported. The Daily Star.
Earlier, 44 people were reported dead and more than 400 injured on Sunday.
The dead include both protesters and law enforcement officers, of whom at least 14 lost their lives.
Student protests against the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have been revived on Friday.
Leaders of the so-called Anti-Discrimination Student Movement began a campaign of civil disobedience against the current government this Sunday.
Their intention is to cease all cooperation with the cabinet; stop paying taxes and utility bills; paralyze the work of all institutions, enterprises, ports, educational institutions, courts and public transportation; stop remittances from abroad; boycott all government meetings, seminars and events; close luxury goods stores, showrooms, hotels and restaurants; limit the work of banks to urgent transactions on Sundays for urgent transactions, etc.
Last July, protests against a controversial employment quota system left more than 200 people dead in Bangladesh.
The protesters were demanding an end to the quota system, which reserved up to 30 percent of public jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war.
The opposition says the quota system is discriminatory and wants to replace it because it benefits supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose Bangladesh Awami League party led the independence movement in 1971.
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– 2024-08-05 19:22:07
