DHAKA, Bangladesh — More than 400 Bangladeshis were injured in ongoing protests over quotas for coveted government jobs, police and protesters said Tuesday, after clashes between rival student groups the previous day.
Demonstrators said they were holding peaceful marches on Monday at two universities in the capital Dhaka when they were attacked by student activists from the ruling party armed with sticks, rocks, machetes and molotov cocktails.The violence was a sudden escalation in efforts to hinder a determined student movement that has ignored calls by Bangladesh 's prime minister and top court to return to class.
Students have for weeks staged near-daily protests demanding the government scrap a quota system for government jobs and introduce a merit-based scheme instead.The scheme reserves more than half of well-paid civil for specific groups, including children of heroes from the country's 1971 liberation war from Pakistan.
Than 400 Injured In Bangladesh Job Quota Rally Clashes
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