DHAKA, July 17 — Bangladesh has shut schools nationwide after the deaths of six people in protests demanding the government scrap its preferential hiring rules for prestigious...
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AFP explains why students around the country are protesting and how weeks of demonstrations escalated into violence:Bangladesh has more than 1.9 million civil servant posts, according to a 2022 report by the country’s public administration ministry. The current rules were introduced in 1972 by independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.But last month the High Court ruled that this change had been unlawful and ordered the government to reintroduce the freedom fighter category it had abolished.Bangladesh was one of the world’s poorest countries when it gained independence in 1971 and suffered a devastating famine three years later.
More than 40 per cent of Bangladeshis aged between 15 and 24 were not working, studying or training, according to government statistics from 2022 — altogether 18 million people.Civil service posts offer a chance at stable lifetime employment but students say the quota system is abused to stuff government posts with loyalists of Hasina’s ruling Awami League party.
Police attempted to disperse rallies the following day, firing rubber bullets and tear gas canisters, but failed to suppress protests in the capital Dhaka. But with no sign of the demonstrations abating, her government has escalated its efforts to quell the campaign.
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