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Bangladesh garment sector rocked by protest crackdown

Curfew and communications blackout raises shipping costs and shakes confidence in major global exporter

Bangladesh’s garments industry is reeling after authorities imposed a curfew and communications blackout as part a deadly crackdown on student protesters, forcing factories to shut and disrupting shipments from the world’s second-largest clothing exporter.

More than 100 people have been killed in recent days in clashes between police and students, who are demonstrating against a job quota system that they say benefits allies of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government.

Authorities last week imposed the curfew, cut off mobile and internet services and deployed the army, with security forces reportedly given shoot-on-sight orders.

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