Turmoil in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh student protests over jobs escalate, telecoms disrupted
Death toll expected to rise amid violence that has seen government buildings torched and telecommunications disrupted.

Dozens of people have been killed in Bangladesh as nationwide student protests over the allocation of civil service jobs took an increasingly violent turn.

On Friday student demonstrators continued to clash with police and pro-government activists after days of protests, with government buildings torched and telecommunications severely disrupted.

“Everything remains very volatile, intense, and it’s very critical right now,” said Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury, reporting from the capital, Dhaka.

“Just a quarter mile from where I am, there are about six universities, which were demonstrating since morning, and we can still hear gunfire, stun grenades and all sorts of noises coming from that area because the students refused to leave.”

The death toll from Thursday’s violence had risen to 32, the AFP news agency reported on Friday. That number could not be immediately verified.

Al Jazeera had previously reported that at least 19 protesters were killed by Thursday night, with the majority in the capital, Dhaka. Others were killed in protests in nearby Narayanganj and the eastern city of Chittagong.

The death toll could rise with reports of clashes in nearly half of the country’s 64 districts. More than 1,000 people have been injured.

A police statement issued after a near-total shutdown of the nation’s internet – imposed by the government on Thursday – said protesters had torched, vandalised and carried out “destructive activities” on numerous police and government offices.

Among them was the Dhaka headquarters of state broadcaster Bangladesh Television, which remains offline after hundreds of students stormed the premises and set fire to a building.

The police statement said that if the destruction continued, they would “be forced to make maximum use of law”.

Police issued a daylong ban on all public rallies in Dhaka on Friday, Commissioner Habibur Rahman told AFP.

Telecommunications networks were reportedly down, with only some voice calls working in the country and no mobile data or broadband on Friday morning. Calls from overseas were mostly not getting connected.

Social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp were not loading.

Student protesters said they would extend their calls to impose a national shutdown on Friday, and urged mosques across the country to hold funeral prayers for those who have been killed.

Government ‘conciliatory’

The nationwide agitation, the biggest since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was re-elected earlier this year, has been fuelled by high youth unemployment, with about a fifth of the country’s 170 million population out of work or education.

Protesters are demanding the state stop setting aside 30 percent of government jobs for allies of Hasina’s Awami League party, which led the country’s independence movement.

The jobs are reserved for family members of veterans who fought for the country’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.

A further 26 percent of jobs are allocated to women, disabled people and ethnic minorities. This leaves about 3,000 positions for which 400,000 graduates compete in the civil services exam.

Students pushing for a merit-based system have been demonstrating for weeks but the protests escalated after violence broke out on the campus of Dhaka University on Monday, with students violently clashing with police and the student wing of the Awami League.

The government shut all public and private universities indefinitely on Wednesday and sent riot police and the Border Guard paramilitary force to campuses.

Al Jazeera’s Chowdhury said the government had been “conciliatory”.

“The law minister announced that the prime minister has instructed him to come to a compromise and sit down with the quota protesters,” he said.

But students he had spoken to said they wanted “police and pro-government student-wing members brought to justice” before they would “even consider sitting with the government”.

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⚡️WHAT'S GOING ON IN 🇧🇩BANGLADESH?

*PM Hasina resigned, left the country for India (reports)

* Army chief announced formation of interim gov't

* Protesters stormed PM's residence in Dhaka, over 300 dead so far

* Experts speak of 🇺🇸American-made chaos to potentially counter India in the long-term - Hasina gov't was both 🇮🇳India-and 🇨🇳China-friendly

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CIA at work? Tracing U.S. hand in Bangadeshi events

🇮🇳 Air Marshal (Retd) M. Matheswaran to Sputnik India:

"There seems to be a clear 🇺🇸US hand at play in taking advantage of the student protests to topple the democratically-elected gov't. The students are an easily influenced group, and sadly in this case, they succumbed to influence from the West in calling for Hasina's ouster."

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Bangladesh PM resigns after weeks of violent protests: what you need to know

◾️ Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and left Dhaka, the capital, after nearly two months of violent unrest. At least 93 people were killed in the violence, including 14 police officers, according to local media. Thousands have also been injured, including over 1,100 police officers.

◾️ In an address to the nation on Monday, General Waker-Uz-Zaman, until now the Chief of Army Staff, said an interim government would be formed, and that representatives “from all major political parties” have been invited to participate.

◾️ Zaman asked protesters to give the military "some time" and called on them to "stay calm and go back home," and said there were no plans to introduce a curfew or state of emergency at the moment. Some protest leaders have warned that they would not accept "military rule."

◾️ Indian media reports suggest Hasina landed in the northeastern Indian city of Agartala after leaving Dhaka.

◾️ The unrest in Bangladesh began in early June, triggered by changes to the country’s quota-based government job recruitment system, but quickly straddled by the opposition into large-scale anti-government demonstrations hailed by Western media as “pro-democracy” protests.

Serving as PM from 1996-2001 and then again from 2009 on, Sheikh Hasina had a history of strained relations with the United States.

🔸 In April, she blasted US foreign policy misadventures in Muslim-majority countries under the guise of “democratization.”

🔸 In May, she accused the US of seeking to create a “Christian state” by partitioning pieces of Bangladesh and Myanmar, Hindustan Times reported.

🔸 Hasina also said she had been offered an easy reelection victory in general elections in January in exchange for permission to a foreign power to set up an airbase on St. Martin’s Island in the south of the country. However, the state's name wasn’t disclosed, according to HT.


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Change of political power in Bangladesh is an internal matter of the country – Russian Foreign Ministry

"Russia proceeds from the fact that the change of political forces in power in Bangladesh is an internal matter of this country, at the same time counting on the speedy return of internal political processes in our friendly state in the constitutional direction," the ministry stated.

According to the Russian embassy in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, no Russian citizens were injured during the recent riots that led to the overthrow of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the Russian Foreign Ministry's website reported.

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In the last couple of years, the US has staged successful coups in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh — all surrounding India. 😳

India-US relations are going down the tube, since this seems like an American containment policy.

India needs to ban all Western NGO’s and liberate the Indian corporate media from US shareholders.

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🇧🇩 INDIA-BANGLADESH DEFENCE TIES TO REMAIN STRONG DESPITE REGIME CHANGE

Indian Army veteran and defence expert Major General (Retd) Prabdeep Singh Behl to Sputnik India:

"As far as the security aspect is concerned, it is not going to change much. The military-to-military cooperation or the defence cooperation, which exists between India and Bangladesh will continue hithertofore."

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That's basically it, M. Yunus is a Capitalists' tool, these things being run in cahoots with the Pakistani ISI.

Yes, probably a long-range attempt to field a new "Golden Triangle" in the stated area.

And no, usually nothing Pakistan does sits well with India.

Again if you think the maps in the mid-east affect millions, these lines affect hundreds of millions. The scale here is staggering.