[slavboj]

So from a cursory reading, these protests were originally because a quota system for government jobs, originally intended for descendants of veterans, was in the past paused, and now has been reimplemented as set-asides for politically favored demographics?

[thunfischbrot]

Yes, that’s one part of the initial protest. See https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-news/report-from-b... for details. Unfortunately Bangladesh’s democracy was slowly suffocated, with the only party in power liking their corruption schemes a little too much to allow for fair elections.