Bangladesh military moves in to quash violent protests in Dhaka



Bangladesh’s government has called in the military to end days of violent protest in the capital of Dhaka. Demonstrators are furious over a government policy that earmarks up to 30 per cent of civil service jobs for the descendants of veterans of the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.

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