The Bangladesh President has dissolved the current Parliament and ordered the release of Begum Khaleda Zia, former PM and leader of the main opposition Party Bangladesh Nationalist, from House arrest.
The development comes barely 24-hours after the country’s prime Minister Sheik Hasina resigned and plea to neighboring India.
GLOBAL TRACKER recalled that protests began last month over governmental job quotas and have since expanded into nationwide unrest amid a crackdown by authorities.
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“This student-citizen uprising will continue until the fall of Sheikh Hasina,” protest coordinator Asif Mahmud said in a message on Facebook late on Sunday. “Tomorrow is the ‘March to Dhaka’. Travel to Dhaka now to witness history. Join the ultimate fight,” he said.
The violence has so far resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 people.
The tension was simmering in Dhaka on Monday, after authorities announced a nationwide curfew the previous evening.
Army tanks and police vehicles were on the streets and security forces patrolled on foot, an online news channel showed. There was almost no civilian traffic, barring a few motorcycles and three-wheel taxis.
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