Bangladeshi fascists continue to kill - Secular publisher hacked to death & other attacked
A Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked
to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday,
police say.
Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in the
city centre, hours after another publisher and two secular writers were injured
in an attack. A local affiliate of al-Qaeda said it carried out the
attacks. There has been a series of attacks on secularists since blogger Avijit Roy was
hacked to death in February.
Both publishers targeted on Saturday published Roy's work. Mr Dipon was found dead at the Jagriti Prokashoni publishing
house, in his third-floor office. "I saw him lying upside down and in a massive pool of
blood. They slaughtered his neck. He is dead," his father, the writer Abul
Kashem Fazlul Haq, said, quoted by AFP.
Earlier on Saturday, armed men burst into the offices of
publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul.
They stabbed Mr Tutul and two writers who were with him,
locked them in an office and fled the scene, police said. The three men were rushed to hospital, and at least one of
them is in a critical condition. The two writers were named by police as Ranadeep Basu and
Tareque Rahim.
Ansar al-Islam, al-Qaeda's Bangladeshi affiliate, posted
messages online saying it had carried out Saturday's attacks. Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin and critic of
radical Islamism, was murdered in February by suspected Islamists. His wife and
fellow blogger Bonya Ahmed was badly injured in the attack. Three other bloggers have since been killed.
Timeline: Attacks on bloggers
- 27 February: Avijit Roy attacked and killed while walking home from a book fair. His wife Bonya Ahmed was also hurt
- 30 March: Washiqur Rahman hacked to death near his home in Dhaka
- 12 May: Blogger Ananta Bijoy Das attacked and killed in Sylhet
- 7 August: Blogger Niloy Neel hacked to death at home by gang armed with machetes
See also
Publisher of slain Bangladesh blogger Avijit Roy attacked in his office
http://bdnews24.com/ bangladesh/2015/10/31/ publisher-of-slain-bangladesh- blogger-avijit-roy-attacked- in-his-office
Three bloggers attacked in Bangladesh
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ world/three-bloggers-attacked- in-bangladesh-1158860.html
http://bdnews24.com/
Three bloggers attacked in Bangladesh
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/
NB: This writer sums up the challenge we face in differing degrees all over South Asia. The state has withdrawn its protection from citizens who adopt unconventional ideas or practices. When the state refuses to defend even the right to life of a person because he/she is an atheist/apostate/kafir etc, we have yet another version of authoritarianism. When fanatics celebrate the brutal murder of people who dare to think differently, we have an Orwellian dystopia come to life - DS