Bangladesh Bangladesh: Crime Increases with Unemployment in Gazipur

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The closure of 72 factories has left 73,000 people out of work, pushing many young people into drugs and crime. In six months, 1,600 people arrested for crimes such as robbery and aggression: half are unemployed. Experts call for interventions in what was a stronghold of the Awami League and where today some groups would feed anarchy to destabilise the whole region.