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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Another Bangladesh blogger hacked to death in Dhaka

#Dhaka #Bangladesh #WashiqurRahman #AvijitRoy #blogger Another blogger Washiqur Rahman of Bangladesh has been hacked to death in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka near his home in Begunbari region. This brutal killing has come within a month of murder in broad daylight of another blogger. He was Avijit Roy, a US-blogger and he fell victim to a machete attack while he was visiting Dhaka.
He was a prominent atheist writer and had criticized religious intolerance.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 30 March 2015.

Two students at an Islamic seminary have reportedly been arrested in connection of the death of Washiqur Rahman. He used to blog under a pen-name, Kucchit Hasher Channa, or Ugly Duckling and had criticized irrational religious beliefs. He was killed on a busy street in Dhaka and two suspects, armed with meat cleavers, were caught near the scene.
These suspects has told the police they had targeted Washiqur Rahman because of his anti-Islamic writing.
These deaths of Avijit Roy and Washiqur Rahman have brought forth concerns about freedom of speech in Bangladesh. Several secular-minded writers have been targeted in the country by militants.

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Death of a US-Bangladesh blogger at the hands of religious fanatics in Dhaka

#AvijitRoy #Dhaka #Bangladesh #religiousfanatics The incident of the hacking to death of a blogger in the name of religion reveals the undercurrents in society with fears of terrorism and death lurking round every corner. The brutal murder of Avijit Roy, a US-Bangladesh blogger at the hands of fanatics in Dhaka, is proof as reported in bbc.com dated 27 February 2015.
Avijit Roy was returning from a local book fair with his wife when a knife-wielding mob, armed with meat cleavers, attacked them and hacked him to death. They had ambushed the couple as they were on their way towards a roadside tea stall.
He was an atheist who advocated secularism and his writings on religion earned for him wraths of Islamist hardliners. Police have yet to make any arrests but the gingers of suspicion point to a local Islamist group that has praised the killing on the internet. As informed by his family, he had received threats after publishing articles that promoted secular views, science and social issues in his Bengali-language blog, Mukto-mona, or Free Mind.
It seems he had defended atheism in a recent Facebook post. He had called it as "a rational concept to oppose any unscientific and irrational belief".
His death has been mourned by hundreds of students who gathered in Dhaka.

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