Bangladesh’s top court has ruled to water down contentious government job quotas that sparked widespread anger and led to clashes with security forces that killed more than 100 people.
Local media and news agencies on Sunday reported that the Supreme Court had largely scrapped an earlier decision by a lower court to set aside about a third of public sector jobs for descendants of veterans of the 1971 independence war with Pakistan.
Protesters saw the quotas, which were scrapped in 2018 but reinstated last month, as disproportionately benefiting loyalists of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League.
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