The curfew comes inthemiddleof a telecom blackout that has left the nation of 170 million cut off from the world.
Published On 19 Jul 2024
Bangladesh has revealed the imposition of a curfew and the implementation of military forces after days of clashes at demonstrations versus federalgovernment task quotas throughout the nation.
“The federalgovernment has chose to enforce a curfew and deploy the military in help of the civilian authorities,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s press secretary Nayeemul Islam Khan, informed the news company AFP, including that the curfew would take instant impact.
Police in the capital, Dhaka, earlier prohibited all public events for the day – a veryfirst consideringthat demonstrations started – to forestall more violence.
However, that did not stop another round of conflicts inbetween cops and protesters around the stretching city of 20 million individuals regardlessof an web shutdown intended at aggravating the organisation of rallies.
Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury, reporting from Dhaka, stated the intro of the curfew, which started at midnight (18: 00 GMT on Friday) will just include to the public’s confusion and a sense of discontent in the nation.
“People weren’t able to go out the last 2 days duetothefactthat of the shutdown. Now you have a curfew, and the web hasactually been totally shut down because early theotherday [Thursday] night,” he stated.
Chowdhury stated the federalgovernment hopes to keep “students and the public off the street” with the curfew duetothefactthat it senses it is losing control of the demonstrations.
He included that the protesters appeared to b