Bangladesh prime minister is reportedly ousted by student-led protests

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and near nan state connected Monday, section media reported, a time aft astir 100 group were killed successful clashes pinch nan constabulary arsenic protesters demanded she measurement down.

Video showed protesters flowing into nan premier minister’s residence successful Dhaka, nan capital, which had been near unguarded. Reports of her resignation were met pinch cheers by others gathered connected nan streets.

Army main Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman was expected to reside nan nation, according to section media.

The South Asian state of 170 cardinal had spent astir of Monday nether an internet blackout, on pinch a nationwide curfew that was imposed Sunday evening aft nan deadly clashes. But student-led protesters had called for a march toward nan superior that drew group from astir nan country, successful an effort to property Hasina, 76, nan country’s longest-serving leader, to resign.

At slightest 95 people, including 14 constabulary officers, were killed connected Sunday successful nan deadliest time of protests that began successful June, according to nan country’s starring Bengali-language regular newspaper, Prothom Alo.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina successful Dhaka connected July 25.AFP - Getty Images

Thousands took to nan streets demanding that Hasina measurement down, and were met pinch constabulary officers who responded pinch tear state and rubber bullets. Cars and buildings were group ablaze arsenic protesters fought pinch groups they said were associated pinch nan government.

“When you’re connected nan streets and you look astir and spot thousands of group of your age, your father’s age, your sister’s age, you consciousness invincible,” Monorom Polok, 25, said successful a telephone question and reply from Dhaka arsenic he prepared to subordinate nan march connected Monday.

Sunday’s decease toll was nan highest since nan protests began complete a arguable preferential quota strategy for nationalist assemblage jobs. While they began peacefully, they evolved into fury against Hasina complete nan convulsive crackdown, successful which much than 200 group person been killed and thousands of others injured complete nan past month, according to nan Associated Press.

“The shocking unit successful Bangladesh must stop,” Volker Türk, nan U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said successful a statement Sunday.

The strategy was yet scaled backmost by nan country’s apical court, leaving nan streets comparatively calm for a fewer days. But protesters gathered again past week, demanding justness for those killed.

As protesters called for a march, authorities responded by first cutting nan net connected Sunday, successful nan country’s 2nd net blackout since nan protests turned deadly. 

The military, which imposed a shoot-on-sight curfew past month, besides imposed different curfew successful Dhaka and different divisional and territory office later successful nan day.

Netblocks, an net monitoring group, confirmed successful a station connected X Monday that Bangladesh was “in nan midst of a near-total nationalist net shutdown aft earlier societal media and mobile cuts.”