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.
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Sheikh Hasina’s, Hasina’s
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Bangladesh