Story Archive
2024-07-24
Hundreds of thousands of refugees live in prison-like camps nearly seven years after fleeing Myanmar.
2024-07-24
Killings increased and protests raged unabated, as information coming out of the South Asian nation slowed to a trickle.
2024-07-23
Authorities arrest more than 1,000 people they say were involved in violence during week of unrest.
2024-07-22
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina blames opposition parties for clashes that claimed at least 138 lives in nationwide unrest.
2024-07-22
Military, police maintain patrols to keep people inside their homes.
2024-07-21
The Supreme Court scaled back – but did not abolish – contentious quotas for government jobs.
2024-07-20
More than two dozen were killed in violent clashes in Dhaka.
2024-07-19
The death toll from clashes has risen dramatically as security forces struggle to restore order.
2024-07-19
A BenarNews journalist witnessed Border Guard Bangladesh members shoot three youths.
2024-07-18
Death toll climbs as anti-quota protesters accuse police and ruling party of stoking violence.
2024-07-18
Protests over a quota system for government jobs turned violent across the nation.
2024-07-17
Sheikh Hasina delivers address after seven were killed protesting against quota system for government jobs.
2024-07-16
A court’s reinstatement of a quota system for government jobs has stirred violent unrest.
2024-07-15
Sheikh Hasina had equated anti-quota protesters and collaborators with the Pakistan Army in the 1971 independence war.
2024-07-13
A new bill would give the envoy a $10 million annual budget to investigate atrocities against the ethnic minority.