The scholars had been agitating as a result of a excessive courtroom final month overturned a call by Hasina’s authorities to scrap 56 per cent quotas in authorities jobs, reinstating them throughout an unemployment disaster within the nation.
However the protests stopped after the Supreme Court docket on Sunday dominated in favour of an attraction from the federal government and scrapped most quotas, directing that 93 per cent of jobs ought to be open to competitors.
The United Nations, worldwide rights teams, the US and Britain had been amongst those that criticised the usage of pressure in opposition to the protesters and requested Dhaka to uphold the suitable to peaceable protests.
“We have now raised our concern in regards to the state of affairs in Bangladesh with related authorities in Dhaka and New York and in addition sought readability concerning experiences that some UN-marked autos could have been used throughout current occasions,” Farhan Haq, a deputy spokesperson for the UN Secretary-Common, advised Reuters.
He stated nations that contribute troops and police to UN peacekeeping are to make use of UN insignia and gear marked with UN insignia solely when they’re performing mandated duties as UN peacekeepers.
Bangladesh is the third largest troop and police contributor to the UN peacekeeping mission, after Nepal and Rwanda.
