Bangladesh
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Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Sunday overturned a 30 percent government employment quota for children of independence fighters that sparked protests across the country. At least 114 people have died as a result of public unrest in recent days.
Protests against the government's employment quota turned into riots in Bangladesh, killing 28 people. Demonstrators broke into the office of state television, started a fire in the building's parking lot and lobby. All mosques in the country are offering funeral prayers in absentia for those who died in the riots.
The UN has asked the international community to allocate 852.4 million dollars to help the approximately 1 million Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar 7 years ago and the government of Bangladesh, which received them.