Bangla Blockade
Students in Bangladesh demand reforms to public sector job quota
Public sector jobs in Bangladesh have a 30% quota for descendants of participants in the country’s liberation war in 1971. The provision has become unpopular among the youth who are facing an unemployment crisis
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