The streets of Dacca allowed a deserted look on Monday and during the weekend, with the exception of the patrolling security forces after the Bangladesh government imposed a national curfew last week after mortal street clashes.
The order restricted people at home for all hours except two each day when they are allowed to go out. During this break, people could be seen aligned with grocery store and other stores, or to pay bills.
Police members and security forces were in large numbers in the streets and took up the air situation.
After days of violent clashes that cost at least 138 people, the country’s Supreme Court reduced a quota system which initially started student agitation.
On Sunday, the court determined that 93% of public service jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit, 5% are allocated to relatives of those who fought in the Bangladesh war of independence in 197, 1% to minority ethnic groups and 1% to disabled and transgender people.
Previously, 56% of government jobs were reserved as part of the quota system, including 30% for relatives of the veterans of the war of 1971 and 10% for women.
The Bangladesh army chief, General Waker-Uz-Zaman (before, third on the left), inspects the Chattogram highway in Dhaka during the curfew, July 22, 2024. (Jibon Ahmed / Benarnews) (Jibon Ahmed) According to a helicopter, the general inspector of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun monitors the Chattogram motorway in Dacca during the curfew, July 22, 2024. (Jibon Ahmed / Benarnews) (Jibon Ahmed) Bangladeshs align in a gas office to pay the bills during a two-hour break in the curfew in the Kawran Bazaar region in Dacca, July 22, 2024. (Jibon Ahmed / Benarnews) (Jibon Ahmed) Sanjida Akter, on the right, waits in front of the morgue of Dacca Medical College and the hospital to receive the body of his brother who was killed during a confrontation in Dacca three days earlier, on July 22, 2024. (Jibon Ahmed / Benarnews) (Jibon Ahmed) A fire burns while a military vehicle approaches a roadblock set up by demonstrators in the Dhaka Rampura region on July 20, 2024. (Jibon Ahmed / Benarnews) (Jibon Ahmed) The soldiers walk in a street in the Rampura region in Dacca on the first full day of a national curfew, July 20, 2024. (Jibon Ahmed / Benarnews) (Mehedi Hasan) Military staff take a position around an armored vehicle in the Rampura region in Dhaka on July 20, 2024. (Jibon Ahmed / Benarnews) (Mehedi Hasan) Vehicles burned in fires three days earlier remain in the street near the Dacca disaster management office in Dacca, July 21, 2024. (Jibon Ahmed / Benarnews) (Jibon Ahmed)
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