Bangladesh’s youth unemployment crisis at heart of bloody street protests

Student politics in Bangladesh has been known to be virulent, but the kind of violence that engulfed the capital Dhaka and several other parts of the South Asian nation in July is unprecedented.

At least 200 people were killed and thousands of protesters and bystanders injured as security forces, working in tandem with members of the Chhatra League, the youth wing of the ruling party,

cracked down on student demonstrations

against job quotas for civil servant hires. Rights groups said the authorities used indiscriminate force, with hundreds of people grappling with severe eye injuries after being fired at with pellet guns.