{"id":66029,"date":"2024-08-05T14:25:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T05:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-protests-quota-reform-movement-students-dhaka-march"},"modified":"2024-08-05T14:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T05:25:54","slug":"bangladesh-students-call-for-march-to-capital-dhaka-a-day-after-clashes-kill-nearly-100-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66029","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh students call for march to capital Dhaka a day after clashes kill nearly 100 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country has been engulfed by protests that began in July after students demanded scrapping of quota system for government jobs <\/p>\n<p>Protesting students in Bangladesh have called for a march to the capital Dhaka in defiance of a nationwide curfew on Monday to press prime minister Sheikh Hasina to resign, a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/bangladesh-anti-government-protests-dhaka-sheikh-hasina\">deadly clashes in the South Asian country killed nearly 100 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The country has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/20\/bangladesh-police-given-shoot-on-sight-orders-amid-national-curfew\">engulfed by protests and violence<\/a> that began last month after student groups demanded the scrapping of a controversial quota system in government jobs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/bangladesh-protests-quota-reform-movement-students-dhaka-march\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country has been engulfed by protests that began in July after students demanded scrapping of quota system for government jobs Protesting students in Bangladesh have called for a march to the capital Dhaka in defiance of a nationwide curfew on Monday t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,80,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66030,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66029\/revisions\/66030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}