Deadly clashes in Bangladesh last week have highlighted frustration with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year hold on power.
It all began when university students began protesting a June decision by the High Court reinstating a divisive 30% quota of civil service jobs for descendants of fighters in the 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.
Resentment was high because the government was failing to provide enough jobs in the country of 170 million people, especially for its burgeoning youth population.
Then Hasina on July 15 likened the protesters to collaborators with Pakistan in the 1971 war and students erupted in fury as even more came out on to the streets as the anti-quota movement spreads to students nationwide.
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