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☆ Crowds Loot Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Residence
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Minister’s Organizations: Storm, Survival, ’, Boxer Locations: Mozambique, Bangladesh, Wake, Russia, Turkey, Southern India

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country on Monday, the army chief said, a day after nearly 100 people were killed in clashes with the police as protesters demanded she step down. Video showed protesters carrying clothes and furniture out of the prime minister’s residence in Dhaka, the capital, which had been left unguarded. “All hail the 300 martyrs who died for our future.”Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on July 25. Sunday’s death toll was the highest since the protests began over a controversial preferential quota system for public sector jobs. “The shocking violence in Bangladesh must stop,” Volker Türk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement Sunday.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Zaman, Hasina, Bangladesh’s, jubilance, ”, Saqlain Rafi, Prothom Alo, Monorom, ” Volker Türk Organizations: South, AFP, Getty, Human Rights Locations: DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangla

On Today’s Episode:Harris Faces Party Divisions as She Chooses a Running Mate, by Reid J. Epstein, Theodore Schleifer and Nick CorasanitiMarkets Around the World Are Jolted by Fears of Slowing U.S. Growth, by Daisuke Wakabayashi and River Akira DavisHurricane Debby to Strike Florida’s Big Bend Region, by Isabelle TaftBangladesh’s Prime Minister Seeks to Leave Country Amid Protests, Officials Say, by Mujib Mashal and Saif Hasnat

Persons: Reid J, Epstein, Theodore Schleifer, Nick Corasaniti, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Akira Davis, Debby, Isabelle Taft Bangladesh’s, Mujib Mashal, Saif Hasnat Organizations: Harris Locations: Bend

They came prepared for violence. A day after about 100 people were killed in antigovernment protests, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, defying a curfew imposed by the government and demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. They got their wish. It remained unclear what role the military, which has seized power in the past, will play — or whether it had a hand in persuading Ms. Hasina to leave. On Monday afternoon, Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman, the Bangladesh Army chief of staff, announced her departure and said he would request the formation of an interim government.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Hasina, Ms Organizations: Awami League, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Bangladesh Army Locations: Dhaka

☆ Bangladesh prime minister resigns as deadly anti-government rallies grip nation
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Isaac Yee | Tanbirul Miraj Ripon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Dhaka, Bangladesh CNN —The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, resigned on Monday after weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations gripped the South Asian nation. Protesters told CNN that ⁠the military was blocking Dhaka Medical College Bakshibazar Gate. Men run past a shopping center which was set on fire by protesters, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 4. Activists grapple with police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 30, as they stage a march for the victims of nationwide protests. Protesters in Dhaka told CNN that the university campus was surrounded by armed forces.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Hasina’s, ”, ” Zaman, ” Police ‘, Rajib, Shaheed, “, Asif Mahmud Organizations: Bangladesh CNN, CNN, Reuters, UNICEF, ” Police, Police, Dhaka Medical College, Protesters, Dhaka Medical, AP, Dhaka University Campus, Intercontinental Locations: Dhaka, Bangladesh, Rajib Dhar, Shahbag, Motijhil, Netblocks, Nilkhet

☆ Live Updates: Bangladesh Protesters Call for Mass March After Deadly Crackdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Mujib Mashal | Saif Hasnat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Here’s what to know about why the quota system has become such a point of contention. An old quota system, reinstated recently by the Supreme Court, reserves more than half of those jobs for various groups. The quota system was introduced in 1972 by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led his country’s fight for independence from Pakistan in 1971. Student protests accompanied the appeal, although they were not as violent as this time. She abolished the quota system in 2018 amid calls for its overhaul.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Anisul Huq, Zahed Ur Rahman, Rahman, Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina, ”, Asif Nazrul, Atul Loke, Ms, ‘, ’, ” Mr Organizations: University of Dhaka, Awami League, ., Supreme, Bank, United, Rolls Press, Getty, “, The New York Times, Bangladesh Nationalist Party Locations: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Dhaka, United Nations

☆ Crowds Swarm Prime Minister’s Residence after Bangladesh Leader Flees
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Eve Sampson | More About Eve Sampson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Exuberant looters made off with furniture, bedding and potted plants as they swarmed the Bangladesh residence of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, after she resigned her office and fled the country, according to local broadcast footage. People scaled the residence’s black gates, the videos showed, throwing items against walls inside, bashing portraits and helping themselves to a spread of food in catering dishes. The footage showed many people with hands and fists raised in celebration and some jumping for joy on the street. Many in the crowd appeared to be filming the event on their own cellphones. Social media posts and live television footage also showed people taking animals from the residence, including chickens, ducks and rabbits, and some people posing with the animals.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina Locations: Bangladesh

Protesters are demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leave office, after 15 years of rule that have turned increasingly authoritarian. Bangladesh’s army has a history of staging coups and counter coups. Her father, Bangladesh’s first leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as well as much of her family, was killed in a deadly military coup in 1975. On Sunday, the army’s chief, Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman, gathered senior officers for a meeting that was seen as an attempt to allay concerns. “There are major international ramifications to a military coup.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Ms, Hasina, Bangladesh’s, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ” Organizations: United Nations, Bangladesh Army, Bangladeshi Army

☆ She Thought Her Grip Was Unbreakable. Bangladeshis Would Prove Otherwise.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Mujib Mashal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s life, as well as her politics, had been defined by an early trauma at once personal in its pain and national in its imprint. In 1975, her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s charismatic founding leader, and most of their family were massacred in a military coup. Ms. Hasina, who was abroad at the time, was forced into exile in India. Her eventual return and elevation to prime minister embodied Bangladesh’s hopes of a better, more democratic future. She grew more authoritarian, crushing dissent and exuding an entitlement that treated Bangladesh as her rightful inheritance.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina’s, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Ms, Hasina, Bangladesh’s Organizations: eventual Locations: India, Bangladesh

☆ At least 27 killed in Bangladesh clashes, government declares curfew
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

At least 27 people were killed and scores injured in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday, as police fired tear gas and lobbed stun grenades to disperse tens of thousands of protesters calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. “They were brought dead to the hospital with bullet wounds,” said Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, the superintendent of the district hospital. In the northeastern district of Pabna, at least three people were killed and 50 injured during a clash between protesters and activists of Hasina’s ruling Awami League, witnesses said. Munir Uz Zaman / AFP - Getty ImagesTwo more were killed in violence in the northern district of Bogura, and 20 were killed in nine other districts, hospital officials said. Last month, at least 150 people were killed, thousands injured and about 10,000 arrested in violence touched off by demonstrations led by student groups protesting against quotas for government jobs.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Hasina, ” Hasina, “, ”, Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, Hasina’s, Munir Uz Zaman, Samanta Lal Sen Organizations: Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Critics, Police, Awami League, AFP, Getty, Facebook Locations: Bangladesh, Munsiganj, Pabna, Dhaka, Bogura

☆ At least 43 killed as clashes rock Bangladesh, curfew imposed
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Students shout slogans during a protest march as they demand justice for victims arrested and killed in the recent nationwide violence over job quotas, in Dhaka on August 3, 2024. Demonstrators blocked major highways on Sunday as student protesters launched a non-cooperation program to press for the government's resignation, and violence spread nationwide. Police stations and ruling party offices were targeted as violence rocked the country of 170 million people. At least five people were killed and dozens injured amid fierce clashes in several places in the capital, Dhaka, police and witnesses said. "They were brought dead to the hospital with bullet wounds," said Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, the superintendent of the district hospital.

Persons: MUNIR UZ ZAMAN, Sheikh Hasina, Hasina, Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal Organizations: Getty, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Critics, Police Locations: Dhaka, Bangladesh, Munsiganj

☆ At least 27 killed in Bangladesh as protesters, police and pro-government activists clash
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters —At least 27 people were killed and scores injured in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday, as police fired tear gas and lobbed stun grenades to disperse tens of thousands of protesters calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ReutersTwo construction workers were killed on their way to work and 30 injured in the central district of Munsiganj, during a three-way clash of protesters, police and ruling party activists, witnesses said. “They were brought dead to the hospital with bullet wounds,” said Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, the superintendent of the district hospital. In the northeastern district of Pabna, at least three people were killed and 50 injured during a clash between protesters and activists of Hasina’s ruling Awami League, witnesses said. Two more were killed in violence in the northern district of Bogura, and five were killed in four other districts, hospital officials said.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Hasina, ” Hasina, “, Abdul Goni, Mohammad Ponir Hossain, ”, Abu Hena Mohammad Jamal, Hasina’s, Samanta Lal Sen Organizations: Bangladesh Reuters —, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Critics, ”, Getty, Police, Awami League, Facebook Locations: Dhaka, Bangladesh, AFP, Munsiganj, Pabna, Bogura

The government in Bangladesh reimposed a curfew on Sunday and restricted cellular communication, as clashes during protests across the country left over a dozen people dead. Revived and expanded student protests, after a deadly government crackdown late last month, and a call by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s governing party for its own supporters to also take to the streets, have plunged the country of over 170 million into a particularly dangerous phase. At least 20 people were killed on Sunday across Bangladesh, according to tallies by local news media, adding to the more than 200 people killed in the crackdown on protests in July. Coordinators of the student protests said in a statement that Sunday’s death toll was more than 50 — a number that could not be independently verified. What began as a peaceful student protest last month over a preferential quota system for public-sector jobs has morphed into unprecedented anger at Ms. Hasina’s increasingly authoritarian turn and her management of the economy.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina’s, Hasina’s Locations: Bangladesh

☆ Roaring Back After Crackdown, Bangladesh Protesters Demand Leader’s Ouster
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Saif Hasnat | Mujib Mashal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fresh protests roiled Bangladesh on Saturday, just weeks after a deadly government crackdown, as demonstrators returned to the streets in what appeared to be the biggest numbers yet and escalated their demands to include the prime minister’s resignation. In its efforts to break last month’s student-led protests, which started peacefully but turned violent after demonstrators were attacked, the government detained student organizers, rounded up about 10,000 people and accused tens of thousands more of crimes such as arson and vandalism. A curfew and communications blackout quieted things down, and the students won a significant concession from the courts on their initial demand to end a preferential quota system for public-sector jobs. But the crackdown by the security forces of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina — which led to the deaths of more than 200 people — seems to have made many Bangladeshis even angrier and broadened the movement’s scope.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina — Organizations: Bangladesh

☆ Forced marriage: She wanted ‘the world’ for her daughter. Instead, she got a landmark prison sentence
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Jan is the first person in Australia to be convicted of forced marriage since it was criminalized in 2013. Sakina Muhammad Jan was the first person convicted under Australia's forced marriage laws. Some of the measures borrow from forced-marriage laws in Britain, where hundreds of people take out protection orders each year to thwart an impending forced marriage. Other countries such as France, Canada and Germany also have specific laws against forced marriage. A month before Jan’s sentencing, the immigration minister circulated a directive specifically naming the crime of forced marriage as serious enough to warrant the removal of a visa.

Persons: Australia CNN — Ruqia Haidari, Sakina Muhammad Jan, Haidari, Jan, “, ”, Fran Dalziel, Helena Hassani, Boland Parwaz, she’s, ” Helena Hassani, Haidari’s, Mohammad Ali Halimi, Ruqia Haidari, Facebook Halimi, ’, Halimi, he’d, ” Hassani, Wakil Kohsar, Jennifer Burn, Andrew Buckland, it’s, Dalziel, Hassani, It’s, “ I’m Organizations: Australia CNN, Victoria County Court, Australian Federal Police, University of Technology Sydney, UTS, AFP, Facebook, “, Getty, Slavery, Refugee Convention, United Nations, Afghanistan Association Locations: Brisbane, Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Shepparton, Victoria, Hazara, London, Perth, Western Australia, Baharak, Badakhshan province, AFP, Slavery Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Britain, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Melbourne, Australian, Goulburn

☆ Bangladesh bans Jamaat-e-Islami party following violent protests
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ After Protest Crackdown, Bangladesh Accuses Tens of Thousands of Crimes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Mujib Mashal | Saif Hasnat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The authorities in Bangladesh have opened investigations into tens of thousands of people in recent weeks as security forces combed through neighborhoods as part of their deadly crackdown on a student protest that had spiraled into violence. The widening legal net, confirmed in interviews with police officials and a review of records, comes as arrests surpassed 10,000 since the crackdown on protesters began two weeks ago. Charges range from vandalism and arson to theft, trespassing and damage of state property. “This is a witch hunt,” said Smriti Singh, the regional director for South Asia at Amnesty International. Conservative estimates put the death toll at more than 200, mostly students and youths.

Persons: ”, Smriti Singh, Sheikh Hasina Organizations: South Asia, Amnesty International, Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat, Islami Locations: Bangladesh

☆ Transphobic abuse of Rohingya hijras in Bangladesh refugee camps forces victims to live in hiding
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Ladan Anoushfar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ ‘All We Think of Is Him’: Putting Names and Faces to Bangladesh Carnage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Mujib Mashal | Saif Hasnat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A part-time tutor, shot in the neck and killed. A journalist and young father, felled by a bullet to the head. A shopkeeper’s son, also fatally shot in the head. It put names and faces to days of carnage unleashed by government forces seeking to quell what had begun as a peaceful demonstration against quotas that reserve sought-after government jobs for specific groups. Thousands were injured; in one hospital in the capital, Dhaka, alone, more than 250 people required eye surgeries after being shot in the face by pellets or rubber bullets.

Organizations: Conservative Locations: Dhaka

One person survived the Saurya Airlines crash, the Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The Saurya Airlines plane caught fire at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 24, 2024. Last year, Nepal saw its worst plane crash in more than 30 years when at least 68 people died when a Yeti Airlines flight went down near Pokhara. In early 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines flight from Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka to Kathmandu crashed on landing and caught fire, killing 51 people. And in 2016, a Tara Air flight crashed while flying the same route as the 2023 crash.

Persons: Gyanendra, Navesh Chitrakar, Sujan Gurung Organizations: CNN, Saurya Airlines, Civil Aviation Authority, Nepal, Tribhuvan International Airport, Aircraft, International, Yeti Airlines, Bangla Airlines Locations: Yemeni, Kathmandu, Pokhara, Nepal, Dhaka

☆ An Unbending Leader’s Crackdown Rains Carnage on Bangladesh
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Mujib Mashal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For those watching from outside, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh presents a compelling story. Over her 15 of 20 total years at the helm, Ms. Hasina has deeply entrenched her authority and divided this nation of 170 million people. Those who kissed the ring were rewarded with patronage, power and impunity. The sustained protests that have convulsed Bangladesh this month are a backlash against Ms. Hasina’s formula for power: absolute, disconnected and entitled. Her bloody crackdown, which has left at least 150 people dead, has grown into the biggest challenge ever to her dominance, just months after she steamrolled to a fourth consecutive term as prime minister.

Persons: Sheikh Hasina, Hasina, steamrolled Locations: Bangladesh, India, China

☆ Bangladesh’s top court rolls back some job quotas after deadly protests, local media report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Alex Stambaugh | Manveena Suri | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Sunday rolled back some of the controversial quotas on government jobs which sparked violent protests, Reuters reported, citing local media. Since the roles are linked to job security and higher pay, the quota system has angered many in the country, particularly students and young people, as Bangladesh faces high unemployment levels. In 2018, the civil service quota system was scrapped following similar protests but in June the High Court reinstated it, ruling its removal unconstitutional. On July 10, the Supreme Court suspended the quotas for one month while it took up the case. According to local media, the curfew was extended until after the Supreme Court hearing and will continue for an “uncertain time” following a two-hour break for people to gather supplies, Reuters reported.

Persons: CNN —, Anik Rahman Organizations: CNN, CNN — Bangladesh’s, Reuters, Bangladesh Army Locations: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Dhaka

☆ Nipah virus: Indian authorities tracing contacts after teen dies from virus in Kerala state, official says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Parts of Kerala are among those most at risk globally for outbreaks of the virus, a Reuters investigation showed last year. “The infected boy died on Sunday after a cardiac arrest,” Veena George, the state health minister told local TV reporters, speaking in the Malayalam language. “There is a minimum chance of an outbreak of Nipah virus at this stage,” he said, adding that the situation would be monitored for the next seven to 10 days. The state government said it is working to trace any affected people to contain the spread of the virus. Nipah has been linked to the deaths of dozens of people in Kerala since its first appearance in the state in 2018.

Persons: ” Veena George, Anoop Kumar, Nipah, ” Organizations: India — Authorities, World Health Organization, WHO, Aster MIMS Locations: Kochi, India, India’s Kerala, Kerala, Calicut, Malappuram, Kerala’s, Thiruvananthapuram, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Singapore

☆ Behind Bangladesh Protests, Rage Over Inequality
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Anupreeta Das | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The video, taken this month, shows a Bangladeshi protester wearing a black T-shirt and standing on one side of an empty street. His arms are outstretched, and he is holding a stick in one hand. Across the street stand several policemen, wearing bulletproof vests and helmets and pointing their guns at him. Late on Friday, the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared a nationwide curfew and brought the army in to quell the protests. On Saturday alone, the police reported that 12 people had died.

Persons: Bangladesh —, Sheikh Hasina Locations: Bangladesh

Under the court’s orders, Bangladesh will now reserve only 5 percent of government jobs for the children and grandchildren of those who fought for the country’s independence from Pakistan in 1971, according to Shah Monjurul Hoque, a lawyer representing student groups. That is down from a quota of 30 percent for the group. The court ruling also orders the reduction of quotas for some other groups, and abolishes quotas for women and those from certain districts. It cuts the quota of jobs for ethnic minorities to 1 percent, down from 5 percent, but leaves in place the 1 percent of jobs that are already reserved for those with disabilities. In all, the ruling shrinks the number of reserved jobs to 7 percent from 56 percent, a move that will open up many more civil service jobs to university students, who had called the old system unfair and demanded its reform.

Persons: Shah Monjurul Hoque Locations: Bangladesh, Pakistan

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