Bangladesh Seeks Foreign Aid for Judicial Probe into Deadly Anti-Quota Protests

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced plans to seek foreign technical assistance for the judicial committee investigating deaths during recent anti-quota protests. The demonstrations, led by students, opposed a controversial government job quota system, resulting in significant unrest, casualties, and economic loss. The United Nations and Germany have expressed interest in assisting.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced on Tuesday that her government will seek foreign technical assistance for the judicial probe committee investigating the deaths during the recent anti-quota agitation to ensure a thorough inquiry.

Bangladesh experienced unprecedented clashes between the police and predominantly student protesters demanding an end to a controversial quota system that reserved 30 percent of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in the country's War of Independence in 1971.

'We will take foreign technical assistance in the judicial inquiry committee to make it appropriate, qualitative and highly standard,' the Dhaka Tribune newspaper quoted Hasina as saying. Bangladesh is in touch with the United Nations about taking assistance for the inquiry, the official BSS news agency reported.

(With inputs from agencies.)