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00:00Bangladesh's police and army are after the students.

00:04Some where police vans were seen passing over the students, some where helicopters were

00:08seen landing on the roofs of the university.

00:11Thousands of students were seen protesting on the streets.

00:15Some where rallies were taken out, some where protest marches were held.

00:20Soon the students' agitation spread so much that they were forced to block the roads,

00:24highways and railway system.

00:27The situation reached a point where the Bangladesh government pitted the police as well as the

00:31army against the students.

00:34The local media was not reporting anything anyway.

00:37On top of that, the internet, social media and, above all, WhatsApp, more than 200 unarmed

00:43students were killed, thousands were injured and countless students were arrested.

00:48Along with all this, Bangladesh has suffered a loss of more than 2 billion dollars due

00:53to the country being shut down for so many days.

00:57After all this, the only thing on everyone's mind is that the country has lost more than

01:012 billion dollars.

01:03The question that is being raised is why is all this happening in Bangladesh?

01:08Once again welcome to World Stories Videos.

01:11All this started after a decision of the High Court on June 5th, 2024 when they reinstated

01:17the quota system in Bangladesh civil services.

01:20Initially some peaceful protests were seen but after that Eid holidays were to come,

01:25due to which protests were postponed across the country.

01:29After Eid, students started protesting again and this time it was a bit more serious.

01:34They blocked roads and demanded an end to the quota system.

01:38Although the purpose of the protest was to end the quota system, soon many more people

01:42joined it.

01:43A Whammy League party is in power in Bangladesh and this party has a student wing called Chhatra

01:49League.

01:50Members of Chhatra League started protesting.

01:53On this issue, a wave of anger ran among the students who were earlier protesting only

01:58against the quota system.

02:00At the same time, the army used IN vehicles against the protesters at many places which

02:05led to the understanding that perhaps the United Nations was also involved in all this.

02:11When this news ran on the international media, the United Nations got a bad impression all

02:15over the world and the UN sought the reason for doing so from Bangladesh.

02:21It was found that some vehicles were rented to the UN mission but the logo was not removed

02:25from them.

02:26The anger of the protesters had not yet subsided when on July 14th, 2024, Bangladesh Prime

02:32Minister Sheikh Hasina made some remarks which made the matter more serious.

02:38She said that if freedom fighters are not given quota in jobs, then will razzakers be

02:42given quota?

02:44This statement of the Prime Minister, so it was like you started a fire, but you will

02:47understand the real value of this statement when you will know about freedom fighters

02:51and razzakers.

02:53As you know, before 1971 Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan.

02:58At that time it was called East Pakistan while today's Pakistan was called West Pakistan.

03:04Both East and West Pakistan were divided by India.

03:08The distance between these two was also very big and apart from religion there were many

03:12differences between the two in which the difference of language was the biggest.

03:17Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League had a lot of hold in East Pakistan.

03:22Therefore Bangladesh while in West Pakistan there were different political parties.

03:27Martial law was imposed in Pakistan at that time and General Yaya Khan who was the Chief

03:31Martial Law Administrator at that time was responsible for conducting general elections

03:36in Pakistan.

03:38In these elections East Pakistan's Awami League got a lot of success.

03:43Who swept 167 out of 169 seats of East Pakistan.

03:49Now the total seats of National Assembly of Pakistan were 300 out of which 167 therefore

03:54more than half of the seats were taken by Awami League of East Pakistan.

03:59Which meant that Awami League could easily form its government in the National Assembly

04:03of Pakistan but the military leadership of that time did not want this due to which a

04:08movement of civil disobedience started in East Pakistan.

04:12On March 7th, 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave a hint of separation from Pakistan in

04:18his speech and on March 23rd the first Bangladeshi flag was hoisted on many houses of East Pakistan.

04:25The result of this was that a military operation was launched in East Pakistan whose aim was

04:30to stop East Pakistan from separating from West Pakistan.

04:34This war for independence of Bangladesh continued for the next nine months.

04:39The war continued till 1928 in which some units of the military in East Pakistan broke

04:44away from Pakistan and formed their own force to gain independence which is also called

04:49Bangladesh forces Muktibani or Freedom Fighters.

04:53On the other hand the group present in Bangladesh itself which supported West Pakistan was called

04:58Razakars.

05:00In the last two weeks of this war Bangladesh also got India's support and thus East Pakistan

05:05separated from West Pakistan and became Bangladesh.

05:10Now since Bangladesh became independent with the help of Freedom Fighters Sheikh Mujibur

05:14Rahman who had become the President of Bangladesh kept a separate quota of 30 for Freedom Fighters

05:20and Bangladesh Civil Services.

05:23In 1997 i.e. after 26 years of liberation war the recruitment of Freedom Fighters and

05:29Bangladesh Civil Services decreased significantly due to which the government increased this

05:34quota.

05:35The quota was increased not only for Freedom Fighters but also for their children and then

05:40in 2010 the quota of Freedom Fighters was made eligible for their grandchildren as well.

05:46But even then only 10 generations of Freedom Fighters were taking this quota and the rest

05:50of the quota was wasted in the whole country.

05:53The quota of those who wanted to get a job in Civil Services by working hard on merit

05:57was 44 and that too started falling short now.

06:01So the students felt very bad that even after working so hard we cannot even come in the

06:0644th quota of merit whereas the family of Freedom Fighters can easily get a government

06:10job without doing anything.

06:13On March 8th, 2018 a petition was filed in Bangladesh High Court against the quota system

06:18which was rejected by the court.

06:21At that time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that she personally wants to keep a quota

06:25for the families of Freedom Fighters on which the students raised a voice against the quota

06:30system.

06:31They said that the remaining quota of Freedom Fighters should be merged with the merit quota

06:35or the quota of Freedom Fighters should be reduced.

06:39On this, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued an executive order and abolished the quota

06:43system from Bangladesh Civil Services.

06:47There was silence for the next few years but then suddenly on June 5th, 2024, Bangladesh

06:52High Court cancelled that executive order of Sheikh Hasina and reinstated the quota

06:57system and from here the protests started again.

07:00When the situation went out of control, on July 21st, 2024, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh

07:06passed an order for a major change in the quota system.

07:10In that order, a 93% quota was given for merit which was earlier 44% and the quota of Freedom

07:16Fighters which was earlier 30% was reduced to 5%.

07:21After this order was fixed for the workers on 1, the students decided to end the protest

07:26only on the condition that their arrested friends be released and the government officials

07:30of the areas where students were beaten resign.

07:33At present, at the time this video is being made, the demands of the students have not

07:38been met but the government believes that the situation is under control to a large

07:42extent.

07:44Mobile services, internet and social media are being opened again.

07:48What do you think about this whole scenario?

07:51Do tell me in the comment section.

07:54I hope you people will like and share this video a lot.

07:58See you in the next amazing video.

08:00Peace.

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