Relatives of people killed during a week of violence in Bangladesh desperately need to mourn. But before they can claim a loved one’s body they must navigate what seems an inexplicably cruel bureaucracy.
A major hospital in Bangladesh says it is overwhelmed with gunshot victims following days of student protests against a discriminatory quota system for prized government jobs, indicating the heavy use of lethal measures by security forces as they tried to quell the unrest.
Bangladesh is experiencing its worst civil unrest in more than a decade as over 30 have died over the last three days including 25 on Thursday, according to Agence France-Presse, as students launched protests against a discriminatory job quota system.
A court’s reinstatement of a quota system for government jobs has stirred violent unrest. Ahammad Foyez/Dhaka At least six people died and hundreds were injured during a third day of student protests in Bangladesh on Tuesday against a quota system for government jobs that has sparked escalating violence and brought parts of the country to …
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Bangladesh goes to the polls next week with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her ruling Awami League all but assured victory, and with the opposition boycotting an election that analysts say is likely to cement autocratic rule.
Bangladesh’s birth as a nation in 1971 was violent, coming out of a war partly ignited by the then-Pakistani military government’s refusal to honor the results of a democratic election.
U.S.-Bangladesh tensions notched up this week after protesters caused the American ambassador to Dhaka to cut short a visit to the home of the mother and sister of a missing opposition politician for security reasons.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the country’s principal opposition organ, this past weekend held what was arguably the nation’s biggest anti-government rally in years, marking a solid end to the party’s long hiatus.
Bangladesh has arrested two senior opposition party leaders ahead of a huge anti-government rally in the nation’s capital Saturday and after political violence that drew a rare high-profile statement from the White House.
At least one man was killed and scores were injured when violence broke out Wednesday as police clashed with a big crowd of supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party outside its headquarters in Dhaka, officials and activists said.