DHAKA, July 19 — Bangladesh woke today to survey destruction left by the deadliest day of ongoing student protests so far, which saw government buildings torched by demonstrators...
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Among them was the Dhaka headquarters of state broadcaster Bangladesh Television, which remains offline after hundreds of incensed students stormed the premises and set fire to a building. Police fire was the cause of at least two-thirds of deaths reported so far, based on descriptions given to AFP by hospital staff.
Near-daily marches this month have called for an end to a quota system that reserves more than half of civil service posts for specific groups, including children of veterans from the country’s 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. Mubashar Hasan, a Bangladesh expert at the University of Oslo in Norway, told AFP Thursday that the protests had grown into a wider expression of discontent with Hasina’s autocratic rule.
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