The unrest is due to a quota system that reserves one-third of government jobs for relatives of veterans of Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
On Thursday, thousands of protesters stormed the headquarters of state broadcaster BTV in Dhaka, smashing windows, setting offices on fire and trapping scores of people inside. According to Al Jazeera, 17 people were killed in clashes with police that day, while authorities shut down internet and phone access across the country.
NetBlocks, an international internet monitoring organization, confirmed that Bangladesh experienced a “near-complete national internet outage.”
Source: Ferra
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