Bangladesh imposes curfew, blocks internet over protests that have already left more than 100 dead

Bangladesh imposes curfew, blocks internet over protests that have already left more than 100 dead

Government Bangladesh It declared a nationwide curfew and announced plans to deploy the army amid major operations. you are protesting This decade in the Southeast Asian nation, after a student protest led to the release of hundreds of prisoners in Narsingdi. AFP confirms that they are already dead, at least. 105 the people

The protests began after the government imposed a quota that would see 30 percent of civil service jobs reserved for descendants of independence war fighters, an idea that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League have rescued from the past, a cycle that protesters say is unfair and benefits members of the ruling party.

On Saturday, July 20, Bangladeshi police arrested a senior official of the main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Nazrul Islam Khan. The party’s secretary general demanded the immediate release of the opposition figure and denounced the campaign orchestrated by the country’s prime minister, who is using the protests as a pretext to unleash security forces against the BNP.

The government on Friday blocked the internet after a hacking group called “THE R3SISTANC3” and allied with the protests managed to attack key government pages such as the central bank, the police and the prime minister’s office, posting a message calling for an end to the protests and the killing of students, with the phrase “This is no longer a protest. Now it is war.”

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