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Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
Schools and universities have been closed indefinitely, and authorities have cut mobile internet services nationwide, citing the need to curb disinformation.
NEW DELHI — Bangladesh announced a nationwide curfew on Friday evening after clashes between police and various student groups killed dozens of people amid a violent backlash to a new policy to reserve a portion of government jobs for descendants of the nation’s freedom fighters. Although Hasina has been credited with boosting Bangladesh’s textile export industry and improving public infrastructure over her more than two decades in power, the country has recently been racked by inflation topping 9 percent and stagnant growth. She used a politically charged term — “razakar,” referring to the violent mobs that collaborated with the Pakistani army in 1971 — in a comment that reverberated around the country and led to student groups hitting the streets in anger.
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