1st of July
College students launch protests demanding an finish to labor quotas
July 15-20
In mid-July, protests turned violent after the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the coed wing of the ruling get together, together with police attacked pupil protesters within the capital, Dhaka.
The federal government shortly closed universities and reduce off web service. At the least 187 folks have been killed and 1,000 arrested within the violence and authorities crackdown between July 10 and 20.
https://x.com/Meghla_Megh/standing/1816231742027825226/video/1
July seventeenth
This July 17 video, verified by Sanad Information Company, reveals protesters being ambushed by gunfire at Dhaka College.
Roads to Dhaka and Chittagong are closed. The road is on hearth. #QuotaMovement #Hasina steps down #BangladeshiStudents are at risk #BangladeshStudentProtest #bangladeshstudentprotests picture.twitter.com/X7o85UbNIh
– Mehedi 🙋♂️🇧🇩 (@IamMehediSahin) July 17, 2024
July 18
In response to NetBlocks, a watchdog group that screens cybersecurity and web governance, authorities have reduce off the web in Bangladesh in an try to quell nationwide protests.
⚠️ Confirmed: Stay metrics present that social media platform Fb has been restricted on a number of web suppliers #Bangladesh; the incident comes as police crack down on pupil protests over government-imposed quotas, with deaths and a whole bunch of accidents reported 📉 picture.twitter.com/76MfPCOLqt
— Community Blocks (@netblocks) July 16, 2024
⚠️ Confirmed: Stay community information reveals #Bangladesh It’s now within the midst of a near-total nationwide web shutdown; the brand new measure follows earlier efforts to restrict social media and prohibit cell information companies, and comes amid studies of an increase in deaths in pupil protests 📉 picture.twitter.com/nMwwS0MDnC
— Community Blocks (@netblocks) July 18, 2024
This video from July 18, verified by Sanad Information Company, reveals the Speedy Motion Battalion (RAB) rescuing stranded cops on the Canadian College of Bangladesh in Dhaka after protests on the campus turned violent. The cops have been trapped there for 3 hours after pupil protesters blocked the doorway following the clashes.
The police are on the run
Pupil energy 🇧🇩 Alhamdulillah picture.twitter.com/PyLvRE9uxu
— CEO Hasan (@maxpro006) July 18, 2024
July 19: A nationwide curfew is imposed
The armed forces are seen firing at giant crowds of protesters who refused to again down. They’re seen hitting the reversing automotive with stones.
https://x.com/shafeKoreshe/standing/1814016246179930349/video/1
X person Zulkarnain Saer, a Bangladeshi researcher, posted a video exhibiting Bangladeshi police throwing an injured pupil out of an armored personnel provider onto the road. The scholar was recognized as Shykh Yamin, a pupil on the Navy Institute of Science and Expertise (MIST). Yamin was left to fend for himself on the road.
Yesterday, I tweeted a video exhibiting Bangladeshi cops cruelly dumping the injured physique of Shykh Yamin, a pupil on the Navy Institute of Science and Expertise (MIST). They confirmed no respect for human life and left Yamin to die on the road.
In the present day I… picture.twitter.com/63IOcS60KH
— Sami (@ZulkarnainSaer) July 19, 2024
July 21
The Supreme Court docket did away with many of the quotas. The 30% quota was diminished to five% and a couple of% was reserved for ethnic minorities, leaving the remaining 93% for all different Bangladeshis, to be selected advantage.
A curfew was maintained all through the nation and the navy guarded the streets.
July 22
July 23th
Web connectivity has been partially restored.
⚠ Replace: Metrics present a partial restoration of fixed-line Web connectivity in #Bangladesh After 5 full days of being offline, restrictions on social media and cell information proceed, limiting the general public’s proper to speak and keep knowledgeable as greater than 170 deaths are reported within the protests. picture.twitter.com/gJ7szpXLLA
— Community Blocks (@netblocks) July 23, 2024
A video was posted on the X web site exhibiting two cops capturing at a wounded protester who was being dragged by one other unarmed man in southern Dhaka. The cops, certainly one of them in plain garments, are seen capturing them at point-blank vary.
https://x.com/RohanMi04507407/standing/1815816785570193756
Pupil leaders introduced that they’d droop the protest till July 24, a deadline that was later prolonged.
July twenty fifth
Protesters renewed their calls for, which embody the discharge of protest leaders, the lifting of the curfew and the reopening of universities.
Whereas they agreed that the Supreme Court docket order and the federal government’s subsequent acceptance met their preliminary calls for to reform the quota system, the killing of greater than 150 pupil protesters and almost 2,700 arrests, in line with an Related Press rely, was not acceptable.
July twenty ninth
Protests resumed and calls have been made for Sheikh Hasina to resign as prime minister.
On this video verified by Sanad Information Company, closely armed forces may be seen taking over positions in several elements of town.
The scholars have introduced that they’ll proceed protesting till their 9 calls for are met. In response, the Bangladesh Military may be seen taking over positions in several elements of the capital Dhaka to quell the protest.
A number of pupil teams demanded Nationwide… picture.twitter.com/VrFeHuQL7u
— Sami (@ZulkarnainSaer) July 29, 2024
A big crowd of peaceable protesters within the metropolis of Chattogram is disrupted by an explosion that sends folks fleeing for shelter, verified by Sanad Information Company.
In the present day, police loaded bombs and opened hearth on a peaceable pupil protest.#StudentsUnderAttack #Bangladesh #BangladeshBleeding #BangladeshStudentProtest picture.twitter.com/qnf6LzFJOb
— sm ehsan (@syedmdehsan) July 29, 2024
