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The 2024 Bangladesh Ansar protest was a protest for reforms on 25 August 2024, near the Bangladesh Secretariat by some members of the Bangladesh Ansar, [6] [7] a paramilitary force tasked with providing security to government installations and aiding law enforcement in Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ আনসার ও গ্রাম প্রতিরক্ষা বাহিনী; also known as the Ansar Bahini or Ansar VDP) is a paramilitary auxiliary force responsible for the preservation of internal security and law enforcement in Bangladesh.
An installation of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Force was also vandalized and partially burnt. Ansar retaliated by killing two demonstrators. [127] In Bogra, a police station was attacked and an Awami League office was set ablaze. [128] A violent mob attacked Baniachang police station in Habiganj and set it ablaze. Police retaliated ...
2024 Bangladesh post-resignation violence took place after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina, during the clashes between the protesters and opposition activists on one side, and the Awami League supporters, government and security officials on the other. [2] On the day of the resignation, 25 police officers were killed. [1]
Golam Nafiz (Bengali: গোলাম নাফিজ; died 4 August 2024) was a Bangladeshi student activist who died in the non-cooperation movement on 4 August 2024. He was photographed on a rickshaw on the way to the hospital, the image of which was well-publicized among the many fatalities of the July Revolution .
The following is a list of scheduled and expected events for the year 2024 in Bangladesh.2024 is the current year, and is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
The protest began in June 2024, in response to the Supreme Court of Bangladesh reinstating a 30% quota for descendants of freedom fighters, reversing the government decision made in response to the 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement. Students began to feel like they have a limited opportunity based on merit.
The 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement was a series of anti-government [a] and pro-democracy [b] protests in Bangladesh, spearheaded primarily by university students. . Initially focused on restructuring quota-based systems for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many perceive as an authoritarian government when they carried out the July massacre of protestors and ...