Why are Bangladesh students protesting?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
School’s out in Bangladesh, and students are up in arms against government job quotas. In response, there’s been a deadly crackdown in which authorities shut down all public universities and cut mobile phone services. Are students in Bangladesh losing faith in their country’s promise of independence and democracy?
In this episode:
- Zulkarnain Saer Khan (@ZulkarnainSaer), Investigative Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Amy Walters, Sarí el-Khalili, Khaled Soltan, and Sonia Bhagat, with Manahil Naveed, Veronique Eshaya, and our host Malika Bilal.
The Take production team is Amy Walters, Ashish Malhotra, Catherine Nouhan, Chloe K. Li, Duha Mosaad, Khaled Soltan, Manahil Naveed, Marcos Bartolomé, Sarí el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, Tamara Khandaker, Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan and Veronique Eshaya.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this episode. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, what sparked the deadly student protests in Bangladesh? |
| 0:15.6 | Literally the whole city is paralyzed, is very tense from the violence from several universities across the country. |
| 0:22.0 | Why students are losing faith |
| 0:23.7 | in their country's promise |
| 0:25.0 | of independence and democracy. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:45.0 | Bangladesh's Supreme Court has ordered that most job quotas that spark student protests be dropped, scrapping its earlier ruling. Sunday's verdict is a major victory for the student |
| 0:51.6 | protests, but there's still a nationwide curfew |
| 0:54.4 | and a shoot-at-sight order being imposed. |
| 0:57.7 | As for the demonstrations, |
| 0:59.8 | student leaders have promised to keep protesting |
| 1:02.0 | until jailed students are released |
| 1:04.2 | and officials responsible for violence step down. |
| 1:08.0 | Before that happened, |
| 1:09.3 | I talked to someone who explained how Bangladesh got here. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm Zulkan and Sary Khan. I'm a investigative journalist with all the Zerzegro's |
| 1:17.5 | investigative unit. And I originally come from Bangladesh. So Sire, welcome to the take. It's good to have |
| 1:25.5 | you. We are talking on Friday, July 19th. And you're in touch with people in Bangladesh as much as you can be, though the connections have been on and off. |
| 1:38.1 | Telecommunications were widely disrupted amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs. |
| 1:49.7 | Looking at the pictures from Dhaka, the capital, there seem to be armored vehicles in the streets, |
| 1:55.6 | clouds of tear gas, riot police. Can you tell me what you've been hearing from people who are there about what's |
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