Student protesters take to streets of Dhaka as Bangladesh wracked by days of clashes

Описание: (18 Jul 2024)
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - 18 July 2024
1. Various of students blocking the road and gathering in protest
2. Various of police and ruling party supporters firing rubber bullets, tear gas and pelting brickbats
3. Police running while firing tear gas
4. Students on the road, sound grenade fired by police going off in background
6. Various of motorcycle on fire, protesters in the area
7. Protesters next to burning motorcycle
STORYLINE:
People stayed home and many malls closed their doors Thursday morning in Bangladesh's capital after days of student protesters violently clashing with police and ruling party-backed student activists.

Traffic was thin on Dhaka's usually clogged streets.

Offices and banks opened, but commuters complained that transport was limited.

Students have been demonstrating for weeks against a quota system for government jobs they say favors allies of the ruling party, but the protests have escalated since violence broke out on the campus of Dhaka University earlier this week.

Six people were killed during protests on Tuesday.

On Thursday morning, with classes suspended and dormitories closed, students near Dhaka's BRAC University clashed with police, who fired tear gas.

Protesters are demanding an end to a quota system that reserves up to 30% of government jobs for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971.

They say the quota is discriminatory and benefits supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose Awami League party led the independence movement.

The student protesters want it replaced with a merit-based system.

Police set up checkpoints at the entrances to Dhaka University.

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