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THIRTEEN KILLED IN BANGLADESH PROTESTS OVER JOB QUOTAS

By Ruma Paul
July 19, 20242:07 AM GMT+2Updated 5 days ago
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 * At least 13 dead in clashes on Thursday, hundreds injured
 * Riot police battle with protesters, fire tear gas
 * Some mobile internet services shut down temporarily
 * Government willing to talk to students, minister says

DHAKA, July 18 (Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed as thousands of students
armed with sticks and rocks clashed with armed police in Dhaka on Thursday, the
worst day of violence so far in protests in Bangladesh against a policy that
sets quotas for the allocation of government jobs.
Authorities cut some mobile internet services to try to quell the unrest, which
has killed at least 19 people this week.
The people who died on Thursday, which saw the highest death toll in a single
day so far, included a bus driver who was brought to a hospital with a bullet
wound to his chest, a rickshaw-puller and three students, officials told
Reuters.
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Hundreds of people were injured as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to
break up groups of protesters, who torched vehicles, police posts and other
establishments, witnesses said.
The nationwide agitation, the biggest since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was
reelected earlier this year, is fuelled by high youth unemployment. Nearly a
fifth of the country's 170 million population is out of work or education.
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Protesters are demanding the state stop setting aside 30% of government jobs for
the families of people who fought in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
Hasina's government had scrapped the quota system in 2018, but a High Court
reinstated it last month. The government appealed against the verdict and the
Supreme Court suspended the High Court order, pending hearing the government’s
appeal on Aug. 7.

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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for restraint by all
sides and urged the authorities to investigate all acts of violence and hold the
perpetrators to account, said U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.
"The secretary-general encourages the meaningful and constructive participation
of youth to address the ongoing challenges in Bangladesh. Violence can never be
the solution," Dujarric told reporters.

At least 11 of the deaths on Thursday occurred in Dhaka. The capital's main
university campus had been the site of the worst of the nationwide protests, but
on Thursday there were stronger demonstrations in other pockets of the city.
Law Minister Anisul Huq said the government was willing to hold talks with the
protesters.
The demonstrators refused, saying, "Discussions and opening fire do not go hand
in hand".
"We cannot trample over dead bodies to hold discussions. Discussions could have
taken place earlier," protest co-ordinator Nahid Islam told Reuters.
Hasina, the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led Bangladesh to
independence, has so far rejected protesters' demands that the jobs policy be
scrapped, saying the matter is in the hands of the courts.
All public and private universities were shut indefinitely from Wednesday and
security forces were deployed at campuses to keep order.

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Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Sakshi Dayal Editing by Clarence Fernandez, Miral Fahmy,
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