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Date | 1 July – 5 August 2024 (1 month and 4 days) Quota reform movement: 1 July – 3 August 2024 Non-cooperation movement: 4–5 August 2024 | ||
Location | Bangladesh and abroad | ||
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Goals | Initially focused on quota reform but then resignation of Sheikh Hasina and her cabinet | ||
Resulted in | Successful
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Death(s) | 1,000+ (MOHFW estimate)[3] 1,581 (SAD estimate)[5] | ||
Injuries | 11,551+ (official gazette)[6] | ||
Arrested | 11,702 (OHCHR estimate)[7]
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The July Revolution,[a] also known as the Student–People's uprising,[b] was a pro-democracy mass uprising in Bangladesh in 2024.[c] It began as a quota reform movement in early June 2024, led by the Students Against Discrimination, after the Bangladesh Supreme Court invalidated the government's 2018 circular regarding job quotas in the public sector. The movement escalated into a full-fledged mass uprising after the government carried out mass killings of protesters, known as the July massacre, by late July.[13] By early August, the movement evolved into a non-cooperation movement, ultimately leading to the ouster of the then-prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India.[10] Hasina's ouster triggered a constitutional crisis, leading to the formation of an interim government led by the country's only Nobel laureate, Muhammad Yunus, as the chief adviser.
To arrive at a more complete estimate of deaths, OHCHR compared the Ministry of Health data with detailed lists of reported deaths compiled by other sources, including civil society organisations, and removed duplicates. Based on this data, OHCHR assesses that there could have been as many as 1,400 protest-related deaths, including at least 13 women, for the period of 15 July to 5 August.[...] This data indicates that about two-thirds (66 percent) of deaths were caused by bullets fired from high-powered military automatic and semi-automatic rifles that are the standard issue of BGB, Army, RAB, Ansar/VDP Battalions, and Armed Police Battalion, and which were also used by regular police during the protests. Another 12 percent of deaths were caused by shotguns loaded with cartridges containing lethal metal pellets (conforming to industry-standard 'No. 8 metal shot'), another weapon widely used by Bangladesh Police and also Ansar/VDP.
arrests by police and RAB.
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