People have taken to the streets to demand a fairer recruitment system for government jobs
Around 40 people have reportedly been killed and hundreds more injured in Bangladesh, after student protests raging since the beginning of July turned violent. The protesters are demanding reforms to the recruitment system for public sector jobs.
Tensions escalated on Monday, when scores of protesters clashed with police and pro-government activists at Dhaka University in the country’s capital. The government shut all public and private universities indefinitely on Wednesday and sent riot police and paramilitary force to campuses. On Thursday, thousands of protesters stormed the office of the state broadcaster BTV and set fire to the building.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had appeared on the network one day earlier to call for peace. The protests are the biggest since Hasina was reelected for a fifth term earlier this year.
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