“STICKS, MACHETS, IRON ROD S”
Critics claim that the program benefits the babies of pro-government organizations that support Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Hasina, 76, won her third straight standard election in January in a vote that saw major opposition parties take to the streets and smuggle her political rivals, who also voted in favor.
Wounded student Shahinur Shumi, 26, said the demonstrators were taken by surprise.
” We were holding our march peacefully”, she said from her doctor sleep at Dhaka Medical Hospital.
” Suddenly, the Chhatra League ( the ruling party student wing ) attacked us with sticks, machetes, iron rods, and bricks”.
Police claimed hundreds of students from various private colleges gathered in Dhaka to protests that had halted transportation close to the US consulate for more than four hours.
According to lieutenant police inspector Hasanuzzaman Molla,” some 200 individuals squatted and stood on the road.”
Thousands of students furthermore marched in a few colleges immediately on Sunday into the morning of Monday to protest what they claimed were Hasina’s disparaging remarks.
Demonstrators said they were compared to partners of the Pakistani army during Bangladesh’s war of independence.
” This is unacceptable”, a female student from Dhaka University said, asking not to be named for fear of reprisal.
We want to see the quota system changed so that worthy students can have a good opportunity.
Crime also erupted during protests in Bangladesh’s following city Chittagong later on Sunday, anti-quota individuals said.
Khan Talat Mahmud Rafy, the administrator, said two other activists were injured.
” Lots of Chhatra League protesters attacked one of our festivities”, Rafy said.
Students are arguing that only those 6 % of jobs that support racial minorities and the disabled may be left.
Bangladesh, which gained its independence in 1971, was one of the poorest nations in the world, but it has increased by an average of more than 60 % annually since then.
However, the majority of that growth has been attributable to the predominantly sexual factory workforce that is now tasked with growing its clothing export market, and economists claim that there is a severe shortage of jobs for millions of college students.