Dhaka and several other Bangladeshi cities have been engulfed by protests in opposition to a new policy reserving a portion of government jobs for certain groups.
Bangladeshi soldiers stand guard along a road on Saturday after the implementation of a curfew and the deployment of military forces in Dhaka, which followed days of unrest over government job quotas across the country.
According to a Washington Post tally of hospital and police reports, at least 110 people have been killed in the demonstrations over the past four days, most of them in Dhaka. Hundreds more have been wounded. Mohammed Abir, a medical examiner at the morgue at Dhaka Medical College hospital, said he received 33 bodies Friday evening.
Dhaka and several other major Bangladeshi cities have been engulfed this past week by protests launched in opposition to a new governmental policy of reserving a portion of civil service jobs for specific groups, including descendants of the nation’s freedom fighters. The quota system, seen as unfair, has fueled explosive anger toward the ruling government under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which has deployed increasingly draconian methods to quell the unrest.
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