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Police also charged batons and fired tear gas canisters at the students and poisonous tear gas shells at the BRACU campus. [203] [204] The Mirpur-10 station of the Dhaka Metro was closed for arson at a foot-overbridge beneath it. [205] Reports indicated that approximately 30 students were killed by the Bangladesh police. [206]
Twenty-seven police facilities were attacked and vandalized, and a hundred policemen were injured in these incidents, according to an official statement by the Bangladesh Police. [ 16 ] In Dhaka, unidentified individuals set fire to and damaged various vehicles, including cars, ambulances, motorcycles, and buses, at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib ...
He was shot by police on 18 July 2024 in Savar during a clash between protestors and police. [21] Rakib Hossain Rajib - was a student of Textile Engineering in Southeast University. He was shot by police while he was in procession in Dhaka on 5 August, 2024. He was said to have been involved in the quota reform movement from the beginning. [22]
At the heart of the demonstrations is a quota system that reserves up to 30% of government jobs for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
Abu Sayed (Bengali: আবু সাঈদ; c. 1999 – 16 July 2024) was a Bangladeshi student activist who was shot dead by the Bangladesh Police on 16 July 2024, [120] [121] [122] while participating in the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.
Students in Bangladesh began a quota reform movement in early June 2024 after the Bangladesh Supreme Court invalidated the government's 2018 circular regarding job quotas in the public sector. The movement escalated into a full-fledged mass uprising after the government carried out mass killings of protesters, known as July massacre , by the ...
The main training institution of the Bangladesh Police is the Bangladesh Police Academy, established in 1912 in Sardah. [citation needed] The Police Staff College, which trains officers from ASP to DIG in-service, was established in 2000 in Dhaka. [14] Bangladesh Police also maintains Police Training Centre (PTC) in Tangail, Rangpur, Khulna and ...
Following the 2018 movement, a circular was issued which addressed the demands, but it was subsequently declared invalid by the Supreme Court, leading to a restart of the movement in 2024. On each occasion, Bangladesh Police and Chhatra League attacked the students with lethal force. [79] [80] [81]