[🇧🇩] In Bangladesh, A Violent 'Student Revolution' is on بنگلہ دیش میں انقلاب

[Old School]

The death toll from this week's protests has exceeded 100.

According to AFP, 115 people have been killed so far in this week's protests.

According to the national daily Prothom Alo report, 56 people were killed on Friday. The death toll in the last three days has risen to 103.

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[Old School]

Malaysia based journalist Manawar Alam Nirjhar, spoke to a media journalist in Dhaka a while ago today, listen to the latest update from him in the FB link below:

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[Old School]

All internet connections are down in the country.
Although Bangladesh has been disconnected from the internet connection for more than 45 hours, it is not sure when this service will be available again.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Mohiuddin Ahmed has said that the work of reconnecting and repairing the damaged data center and transmission line at the BTRC building in Mohakhali is underway.
Quoting the chairman, the company's public relations officer Nur A Khwaja said that work is underway to restore the internet connection to normal. So far, the work has progressed well.
Although the authorities have talked about the transmission line, mobile internet services are also closed.
There is no clear word on when the internet connection will be restored.

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[Old School]

Press Release from the Junior Officers of Bangladesh Army.

 

[LeonBlack08]

Latest update from social media and Netra News July 20 2024

• Internet hasn't been restored completely yet, but the call quality has improved so more news coming in from Bangladesh. This is the most neutral news source at this time, since nothing else is coming out apart from sanitized reports from Govt sources through BBC Bangla and Indian Media.
• Army has been deployed in key govt installation, not as much on the streets.
• Even though BAL leader Obaidul ordered a "Shoot at sight" order, Army has not yet conducted that. They have been checking IDs of people though. This shows there is a clear disconnect between the army and the govt. Earlier there was a strong unsubstiated reports coming out that the army didn't want to come out under civilian administration and DGFI had sequestered the 3 forces chiefs to pressurize and convince them to agree to deploying the troops as per govt. wishes.
• Students and General People are resisting across the country in small pockets, even though a curfew is in effect.
  
  • Police having a lot of casualties. Uttara and Gabtoli areas of Dhaka reported multiple Police casualty.
  • Thousands of protesters in Rampura area of Dhaka - Police shelling tear gas from helicopters
• All the main leaders of the general student protest are now missing / unreachable - presumably arrested by the state. They had earlier announced that the protest will continue to go on despite their death and/or arrest.

Source: Social Media and Netra News

 

[LeonBlack08]

Press Release from the Junior Officers of Bangladesh Army.

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Thank you @Old School and @Bilal9 Bhais. I am not regular on any forum as much now due to family commitments. But these are historic moments for Bangladesh, so calls for an exception.


Late last night an ex-cadet friend shared this with me and confirmed the source is legit -

Lt Col Mustafizur Rahman - Former Commanding officer at Special Forces of Bangladesh

The quick summary of the video is - BD gov wanted army to be deployed under civil admin and implement shoot at sight order, but the 3 forces chiefs wanted military magestracy power. There was a tug of war.

The gov used DGFI to sequester and pressurize the 3 chiefs to accept the govt proposal.

At the time of video - no troops were deployed but now they are on the ground. However - There is a clear disconnect between what Govt wants vs what army is actually doing. Govt wanted shoot at sight - Obaidul Qader said so himself and BBC reported it. But nothing of that sort is happening as per the reports from the ground at this time.

Earlier - there were also unsubstatiated reports of officers resigning. However these are unverified.

 

[LeonBlack08]

Latest footage from Indian media - from yesterday morning after army deployment in Dhaka - as you can see, no shoot at sight being implemented as BAL wanted. Although, the situation did get violent later in the day, but based on the reports - it was police/BGB vs protesters.

 

[LeonBlack08]

At least 25 more dead on Saturday, bringing total to 138

At least 25 people were killed on Saturday in yet another day of deadly violence in Bangladesh resulting from a ferocious government crackdown on a student movement that has morphed into anti-government protests, according to a count by our contributors on the ground who spoke to hospitals across the country, and a separate count of five additional deaths by a Dhaka-based newspaper.

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