{"id":42686,"date":"2024-07-21T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T06:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=42686"},"modified":"2024-07-21T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T06:11:37","slug":"bangladesh-govt-issues-shoot-on-sight-orders-across-country-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bangladesh-govt-issues-shoot-on-sight-orders-across-country-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh govt issues &#8216;Shoot-on-Sight&#8217; orders across country: Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: More than 130 people have been killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bangladesh-pms-servant-having-worth-tk400-crore-sparks-graft-probe\/\">Bangladesh<\/a> so far this week amid protests against a quota system that reserves more than half of civil service posts for certain groups.<\/p>\n<p>Amid growing student-led protests against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bangladesh-pms-servant-having-worth-tk400-crore-sparks-graft-probe\/\">Sheikh Hasina<\/a>&#8216;s government, authorities have imposed a nationwide curfew and ordered police to shoot on sight.<\/p>\n<p>The unrest forced the government to impose a communications blackout, blocking access to the Internet and social media. The protests, initially confined to university campuses, have spread across the country, fueled by broader complaints against Hasina&#8217;s leadership of authoritarianism and allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The situation escalated into violent clashes, with protesters demanding government reforms and an end to the quota system.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department has issued a travel warning advising its citizens to avoid traveling to Bangladesh due to severe civil unrest. The department also upgraded its advisory from a travel reconsideration to a severe warning.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers and riot police have been actively patrolling cities and using force against protesters in violation of government-imposed curfews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: More than 130 people have been killed in Bangladesh so far this week amid protests against a quota system that reserves more than half of civil service posts for certain groups. Amid growing student-led protests against Sheikh Hasina&#8216;s government, authorities have imposed a nationwide curfew and ordered police to shoot on sight. The unrest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[474,19771,19721],"class_list":["post-42686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bangladesh","tag-bangladesh-govt","tag-sheikh-hasina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42688,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686\/revisions\/42688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}