(3 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Cumilla, Bangladesh - 3 August 2024
1. Various of people, believed to be ruling party supporters, chasing and beating protesters with bamboo stick in Cumilla district of Bangladesh
2. People believed to be ruling party supporters throwing brickbats and firing towards the protesters
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - 3 August 2024
3. Various of students along with others marching, chanting slogan to join the rally
4. Protesters entering the rally
5. Pan of large crowd gathered for rally
6. Various of rally with some protesters holding placards
7. Various of drone shots of rally ++MUTE++
8. Protesters clapping and chanting slogan while waving Bangladeshi flag
9. SOUNDBITE: (Bangla) Pulok, student:
“We have one point and one demand, the resignation of Sheikh Hasina. She thought they could stop us by closing educational institutions, but you cannot stop us. Still there is the mark of blood stains on the road. That’s why we are on the street. We won’t leave until she resigns.”
10. Students painting graffiti on the road
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abantee Harun, university teacher:
“We cannot stand on the roads, We cannot stand on our own balcony. So we are not secure anywhere. We have no safety. This cannot be a secure and independent country. So, we want peace, we want freedom. And we want a perfect environment for our students to go back to the classroom.”
12. Various of protesters chasing police while some protesters try to save them
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Gazipur, Bangladesh - 3 August 2024
13. Various of protesters vandalising police vehicle
14. Protesters set fire at police car
15. Police on street firing, near vandalized police vehicles
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people protested in Bangladesh on Saturday to demand justice for more than 200 students and others killed during protests last month, but violence was reported at similar events elsewhere in the country.
The protesters chanted anti-government slogans and demanded the resignation of the prime minister as the wave of protest widened beyond students to include people from many walks of life.
Some pro-government groups also rallied in the city.
The country's leading Bengali-language Prothom Alo newspaper reported that at least seven protesters were hit by bullets after pro-ruling party groups allegedly opened fire on them as they blocked a road in Cumilla, in the east of Bangladesh.
The daily said at least 30 protesters were injured during the violence, but a local leader of the ruling party denied allegations that their supporters attacked the protesters.
Scores of people were injured in other parts of the country, TV stations reported.
The students' protests last month began with the demand for an end to a quota system for government jobs that they said was discriminatory.
Under it, 30% of such jobs were reserved for the families of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence against Pakistan in 1971.
The protests began peacefully but turned violent as students at Dhaka University clashed with police and the activists of a student wing of the ruling Awami League party on July 15.
Since then, more than 200 people have died and thousands of others have been injured.
The Supreme Court cut the veterans’ quota to 5% on July 21, but protests have continued to spread amid outrage over the violence.
Authorities closed schools and universities across the country, blocked internet access and imposed a shoot-on-sight curfew. At least, 11,000 people have been arrested in recent weeks.
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