After the murder of secularist blogger Avijit Roy last month, Bangladesh hits the news again:
A second blogger has been hacked to death in the Bangladesh capital, with police arresting two of the suspected attackers near the scene.
Three men attacked Washiqur Rahman, 27, near his home in the morning, just weeks after an American atheist blogger was murdered with machetes in Dhaka, a crime that triggered international outrage.
“Blogger Washiqur Rahman was brutally hacked to death this morning ... just 500 yards (460 metres) from his home at Dhaka’s Begunbari area,” said deputy police commissioner Wahidul Islam.
“They hacked him in his head and neck with big knives and once he fell on the ground they then hacked his body.”
A fellow writer said Rahman was an atheist blogger who wrote against religious fundamentalism on Facebook using a pen name, although this could not be confirmed by police.
“He is a friend of mine and a fellow warrior. He was an atheist and a believer in humanism,” fellow blogger Asif Mohiuddin, who survived a brutal attack by Islamists in January 2013, told AFP via Facebook from Berlin.
Islam said two suspects, who were students of Islamic schools, were arrested as they tried to flee the scene but a third escaped. Police have recovered three meat cleavers from the site.
Rahman was declared dead as he was taken to a government hospital, Dhaka Metropolitan Police official Biplob Kumar Sarker said.
The captured suspects were students at separate Islamic schools, and the third suspect fled the scene, he said.
It was not immediately known what sort of blogging Rahman did, Sarker said, adding that the suspects told police that they targeted him for his anti-Islamic writings.
As the man said: becoming more like Pakistan.
"This kind of stuff happens everywhere. We kill abortion doctors, don't we?"
Posted by: Recruiting Animal | March 30, 2015 at 08:03 PM