Three die in Bangladesh student protests against quotas for government jobs

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Authorities had cut some mobile telephone services the previous day to try to quell the unrest, but Friday’s wider disruption was not linked to a global cyber outage

Police fire teargas during a clash between anti-quota supporters, police and Awami League supporters at the Rampura area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 18.Three people died in Bangladesh on Friday in fresh protests against quotas for government jobs, media said, as telecoms links were widely disrupted and television news channels went off the air.

Many opposition party leaders, activists, and student protesters had been arrested in a bid to give “political colour” to the movement, he added, but Reuters could not verify his statement about the arrests. The former include the Awami League party of Hasina, who branded the protesters “razakar”, making use of a term that described independence-era collaborators.

Some news channels displayed a message blaming technical problems, and promising to resume programming soon. Another message on the page read, “The government has shut down the internet to silence us and hide their actions.”

 

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