DHAKA: New protests erupted in Bangladesh on Friday in opposition to PM Sheikh Hasina‘s govt, demanding accountability after greater than 200 individuals had been killed final month in violent demonstrations following weeks of rallies over controversial reforms within the job quota system.
Over 2,000 protesters gathered in elements of the capital, Dhaka, some shouting “down with the autocrat” and demanding justice for victims.Police and dozens of scholars clashed in Dhaka’s Uttara neighbourhood. Safety officers fired tear fuel and stun grenades to disperse stone-throwing protesters.
Within the southwestern district of Khulna, police additionally fired tear fuel and rubber bullets, injuring 50 protesters, the Dhaka-based English-language Every day Star reported. The paper stated 50 had been additionally injured in clashes within the northeastern district of Habiganj after an arson assault on an area workplace of the ruling Awami League get together. Within the southeastern metropolis of Chattogram, about 1,000 protesters held a procession after Friday prayers and set a roadside police guard put up on hearth, the report stated.
The coed protests in opposition to the government, which present no indicators of dying down, began as a peaceable demonstration in opposition to a quota system allocating govt jobs however morphed into an unprecedented problem and rise up in opposition to Hasina.
Dramatic movies of lethal clashes between police and protesters have shaken Bangladesh, as has the case of a six-year-old lady who was shot whereas taking part in on a rooftop whereas her father unsuccessfully tried to defend her from the firing.
Over 2,000 protesters gathered in elements of the capital, Dhaka, some shouting “down with the autocrat” and demanding justice for victims.Police and dozens of scholars clashed in Dhaka’s Uttara neighbourhood. Safety officers fired tear fuel and stun grenades to disperse stone-throwing protesters.
Within the southwestern district of Khulna, police additionally fired tear fuel and rubber bullets, injuring 50 protesters, the Dhaka-based English-language Every day Star reported. The paper stated 50 had been additionally injured in clashes within the northeastern district of Habiganj after an arson assault on an area workplace of the ruling Awami League get together. Within the southeastern metropolis of Chattogram, about 1,000 protesters held a procession after Friday prayers and set a roadside police guard put up on hearth, the report stated.
The coed protests in opposition to the government, which present no indicators of dying down, began as a peaceable demonstration in opposition to a quota system allocating govt jobs however morphed into an unprecedented problem and rise up in opposition to Hasina.
Dramatic movies of lethal clashes between police and protesters have shaken Bangladesh, as has the case of a six-year-old lady who was shot whereas taking part in on a rooftop whereas her father unsuccessfully tried to defend her from the firing.
