Anger over job quotas highlights deep economic distress in the world’s second-largest garment exporter
Dozens of people have been killed in Bangladesh as escalating student protests over jobs have exposed widespread fury against Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian government and deep economic distress in the world’s second-largest garments exporter.
Sheikh Hasina condemned the deaths, and her government has said it will hold talks with students, an offer the protesters have rejected as disingenuous. The quota system, which was suspended in 2018 and reinstated by a court last month, reserves about a third of public sector jobs for descendants of veterans of Bangladesh’s war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.
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