July Revolution (Bangladesh)

July Revolution
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Victory procession after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina in Shahbagh, Dhaka
Students launching Bangla Blockade during the quota reform movement in Shahbagh
Date1 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
Caused by
GoalsInitially focused on quota reform but then resignation of Sheikh Hasina and her cabinet
Resulted inSuccessful

(See aftermath)
Parties




Non-political protesters

Defectors
Lead figures
Casualties
Death(s)1,000+ (MOHFW estimate)[3]

1,400+ (OHCHR estimate)[4]

1,581 (SAD estimate)[5]
Injuries11,551+ (official gazette)[6]
Arrested11,702 (OHCHR estimate)[7]

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.

  1. ^ Protidiner Bangladesh (2024-08-04). 'কথা শোনেনি' পুলিশ, নিয়ন্ত্রণে রাখতে সেনাবাহিনীর গু লি | Army | Police | PB. Retrieved 2025-03-15 – via YouTube.
  2. ^ Daily Ittefaq (2024-08-27). কী ঘটেছিল ৩ আগস্ট সেনাকর্মকর্তাদের সঙ্গে সেনা প্রধানের বৈঠকে? | Army Chief | WakeruzZaman | Ittefaq (in Bengali). Retrieved 2025-03-15 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ "More than 1,000 killed in Bangladesh violence since July, health ministry chief says". Reuters. 29 August 2024.
  4. ^ OHCHR Fact-Finding Report: Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh (Report). Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2025-02-12. pp. 10–11. Archived from the original on 2025-02-12. Retrieved 2025-02-12. 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.
  5. ^ "1,581 people killed in Bangladesh student protests". BSS News. 28 September 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Gazette published listing 834 July uprising martyrs".
  7. ^ OHCHR Fact-Finding Report: Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh (Report). Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2025-02-12. pp. 43–44. Archived from the original on 2025-02-12. Retrieved 2025-02-12. arrests by police and RAB.
  8. ^ Moral, Shishir (7 September 2024). "Student-people uprising: More than 18,000 injured". Prothom Alo.
  9. ^ Campbell, Charlie (5 August 2024). "Bangladesh Protests Become 'People's Uprising' Against Government". TIME. Archived from the original on 23 September 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  10. ^ a b কোটা আন্দোলন থেকে অভ্যুত্থান: উত্থান-পতনে যেভাবে এসেছে সফলতা. banglanews24.com (in Bengali). 6 September 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  11. ^ "875 die in student-people uprising, most were bullet-hit: HRSS". Prothom Alo. 13 September 2024.
  12. ^ "At least 875 killed in July mass uprising". The Daily Star. 14 September 2024. Archived from the original on 14 September 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Bangladesh student protests become 'people's uprising' after brutal crackdown". South China Morning Post. 2 August 2024. Archived from the original on 4 August 2024. Retrieved 13 October 2024.


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