Another Bangladeshi blogger killed in Dhaka because of his views on religion

Another Bangladeshi blogger fell to attacks by people who hated him for his views on religion. The group of men armed with machetes killed the secular activist at a crowded intersection in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. This has been confirmed by a police official and is the latest in a series of grisly attacks on intellectuals and bloggers who have written critically about Islamists on social media.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 8 April 2016.

According to witnesses, a group of clean-shaven men surrounded the 28-year-old law student at the state-run Jagannath University. He hailed from Sylhet, was a convinced atheist and used to express his views on Facebook. At the time of the attack, he was walking on the street and the time was around 8.30pm. The attackers slashed his head and then shot him when he fell to the ground.
The location was Wari, the area of Old Dhaka where the killing took place.
This stabbing was similar to a series of earlier attacks on bloggers that had been carried out last year, often in crowded public places. The leader of al-Qaida's branch in the Indian subcontinent had released a video taking credit for two of the killings in which the victims were labeled as "blasphemers". In October there were fatal attacks on two men who had published the works of atheist writers.


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Niloy Neel, fourth blogger of Bangladesh, hacked to death in Dhaka

#BangladeshiBlogger #niloy neel #Dhaka It was yet another incident of a shocking murder of a blogger of Bangladesh in Dhaka – and, with this murder, it becomes the fourth one in Bangladesh. This Bangladeshi blogger was known for his atheist views and he was hacked to death by a gang of men armed with machetes.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 7 August 2015.

The name of the blogger s Niloy Neel and the attack took place in his home in the city's Goran area. He is the fourth secularist blogger who has been killed this year by suspected Islamist militants in Bangladesh.
AS per information there was a gang of six attackers. They had tricked their way into the house on the pretext of renting a flat. Two of them then took him to a room and then slaughtered him there while his wife was in the flat but confined to another room.
Ii is learnt that he had been an anti-extremist voice of reason. He was believed to be the voice against fundamentalism and extremism and also for minority rights - especially women's rights and the rights of indigenous people.
Niloy Neel was not only secular but atheist and, like two of the others, he was from a Hindu, not a Muslim, background.
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Another blogger hacked to death in Sylhet, Bangladesh

#MuktoMona #BangladeshiBlogger #Sylhet #AvijitRoy The murder of the third blogger Ananta Bijoy Das in Bangladesh indicates that a section of the people of that country is opposed to the freedom that bloggers usually enjoy in other countries. In the latest instance, a secular blogger has been hacked to death in north-eastern city of Sylhet in Bangladesh.
This is the third such deadly attack this year as reported in bbc.com dated 12 May 2015.
The individual was attacked by a masked gang who were wielding machetes.

The blogger blogged for Mukto-Mona – this website was, once upon a time, moderated by blogger Avijit Roy who was himself hacked to death in February. He was a Bangladeshi born US blogger and was critical of religious intolerance.
It may be recalled that he was killed in a machete attack while he was visiting the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. He was returning with his wife from a book fair in the city when he was attacked. His wife suffered head injuries and lost a thumb.
Later, in March, another blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death in Dhaka.

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