Fourth Secular Blogger Hacked to Death in Bangladesh

[SRP]

DHAKA: A 40-year-old secular blogger was hacked to death at his flat here today by five machete- wielding assailants in the fourth such brutal murder in Bangladesh this year.

Niloy Neel was killed by unidentified assailants inside his fourth-floor flat at North Gorhan in the capital Dhaka.

Neel was slaughtered in his flat in a building at North Gorhan around 1:45 PM, Khilgaon police officer in charge Mustafizur Rahman told BD News.

He said five assailants had entered the flat after the Friday prayers and killed him.

Neel lived in that flat with his family. He was an activist of the platform demanding capital punishment for the 1971 war criminals -- the Ganajagaran Mancha.

Imran H Sarker, the Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson, said the attackers had entered the building posing as potential tenants.

Neel's murder is the fourth such brutal murder in the country. Machete-wielding masked men in May hacked to death 33-year-old Ananta Bijoy Das, a secular blogger, in Sylhet city. Assailants in February had killed 45-year old Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-born US national, here while his wife narrowly escaped the attack.

A month after Roy's killing, another blogger Washiqur Rahman was murdered in similar fashion in Dhaka but people in the neighbourhood nabbed two suspected killers from the scene and handed them over to police.

All three killed were involved with the Ganajagaran Mancha. In May, terror group al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) had claimed responsibility for the killing of secular bloggers in Bangladesh whom it described as 'blasphemers'.

Radical group Ansar Bangla Team had also claimed responsibility for the deaths.

Two years ago, Mancha activist Ahmed Rajib Haider, another blogger, was hacked to death near his Mirpur home in Dhaka.


Fourth Secular Blogger Hacked to Death in Bangladesh -The New Indian Express

Bangladesh blogger Niloy Neel hacked to death in Dhaka - BBC News

 

[HariPrasad]

BD is on a dangerous path. Hasina is the only lady between a failed BD and a successful BD.

 

[Moon]

BD is on a danger path. Hasina is the only lady between a failed and a successful Pakistan.

 

[HariPrasad]

I am sorry. Corrected.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

BD is on a danger path. Hasina is the only lady between a failed and a successful BD.

As much as I hate these murder I also want to rebuke those blogger for their callous negligence for their personal safety.What they think about Bangladesh?Has it become like western European secular country where majority of population abandoned religion?Religious blasphemy is very sensitive issue in every muslim country even many non muslim third world country.Bangladesh is no exception.Like it was a big issue in western europe just 150-200 years ago.

Most of the Bangladeshi muslim will not support killing someone critical of their religion,but there is a small group of fanatical muslim who will commit crime for perceived defamation of their religion.It is extremely difficult for a Govt. to provide security 24/7 days for someone who are on the hit list of Jihadi organization but maintain their public profile.Even developed western country like France failed to provide security for the Charlie Hebdo cartoonist,Now imagine the capability of a country like Bangladesh.

Extremists in Bangladesh are not powerful.They don't have capability to seize power or to produce any large scale mayhem.They can only go after soft target like this and those blogger themself made them soft target.If you can't maintain sufficient anonymity then you should not venture this dangerous game.Plain and simple.Otherwise be prepare for any eventuality and do not expect Govt to provide life long security.

 

[TopCat]

Instead of writing anything worthwhile these people are after taunting people. Most of them actually after western visa.

 

[jaunty]

Congratulations to Jamat and its esteemed representatives on this board.

 

[Roybot]

Secular blogger? More like the 3rd Hindu blogger killed.

 

[Maira La]

Who cares. Both blogger and his killers are attention seeking whores. Use RAB to get rid of the killers.

 

[Saiful Islam]

If they government had taken action against these rascals accordingly who sit in their little huts typing away releasing blasphemous material then no one would have to die.

There are 84 bloggers who these so called militants are targetings, it's a matter of who is next?

 

[Solomon2]

...Extremists in Bangladesh are not powerful.They don't have capability to seize power or to produce any large scale mayhem.They can only go after soft target like this and those blogger themself made them soft target.If you can't maintain sufficient anonymity then you should not venture this dangerous game.Plain and simple.Otherwise be prepare for any eventuality and do not expect Govt to provide life long security.

So what are the choices? Either stay quiet or build up your own armory, because the gov't won't provide protection from the extremists? That's like handing them a "win" already, isn't it?

Before WWII some writers and cartoonists in the U.S. were threatened by local Nazis. In two cases I recall local mayors called those under threat to assure them they would be protected and deployed police appropriately. No one stopped writing or drawing - but you're saying in Bangladesh the police won't do that because they or their bosses aren't willing to fight the good fight for human dignity and freedom?

 

[Zabaniyah]

So what are the choices? Either stay quiet or build up your own armory, because the gov't won't provide protection from the extremists? That's like handing them a "win" already, isn't it?

Bangladesh is a different country.
Bangladesh man given jail term for PM Hasina Facebook post - BBC News

Yes, insulting the matrix of leadership can land you jail in a country that is apparently a 'democracy'.

 

[chaanmia]

Secular blogger? More like the 3rd Hindu blogger killed.

He was an atheist . Fanaticism is a global phenomenon and Bangladesh is no exception and considering that we are a muslim majority country i think we are still doing good

 

[Imran Khan]

freedom of speech and muslim countries ?

 

[jamahir]

All three killed were involved with the Ganajagaran Mancha. In May, terror group al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) had claimed responsibility for the killing of secular bloggers in Bangladesh whom it described as 'blasphemers'.

Radical group Ansar Bangla Team had also claimed responsibility for the deaths.

it is simply the tableeghi jamaat doing this and ascribing it to fancy group names... bd government should begin raiding them.

this is sad... bd will slowly become what india and pakistan have.