Third atheist blogger killed in Bangladesh knife attack

[cbayer]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/12/third-atheist-blogger-killed-in-bangladesh-after-knife-attack

Police say Ananta Bijoy Das was attacked in Sylhet city, months after fellow bloggers Avijit Roy and Washiqur Rahman were murdered


Bangladeshi secular activists take part in a torch-lit protest against the killing of Avijit Roy. Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

A secular blogger has been hacked to death in north-east Bangladesh, the third such deadly attack this year.

Police said Ananta Bijoy Das was murdered as he headed to work at a bank in the city of Sylhet, an attack that fellow writers said highlighted a culture of impunity.

Kamrul Hasan, commissioner of Sylhet police, said a group of about four masked attackers pounced on Das with machetes at about 8.30am on Tuesday on a busy street in Bangladesh’s fifth-largest city.

“They chased him down the street and first attacked his head with their machetes and then attacked him all over his body,” Hasan told Agence France-Presse. The attackers fled into the crowds and Das was taken to hospital but declared dead on arrival, police and medics said.

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[trotsky]

1. Very sad.

Hopefully no one will blame him for being murdered because he was too "arrogant."

[Warren Stupidity]

3. well some here should if they have even a shred of integrity.

After all this blogger certainly knew that his atheistic blogging was an incitement to violence to the religiously afflicted, so by the theory promoted here and elsewhere over hebo and geller, the blogger is at least partly responsible for causing the attack that killed him.

But they won't do that in this case, because words.

[okasha]

2. Horrible.

Time to withdraw all aid to Bangladesh except nutrition and medicine. Make the country a human rights pariah till they get the hate crimes under control.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. 'Hate crimes' is a broad net.

Not sure we have them "under control" right here at home.

[okasha]

6. We don't.

[cbayer]

5. I would like to see some kind of action.

This is unforgivable and the government does not appear to be addressing it.

[okasha]

7. The UN should also be involved at this point.

There's no excuse for letting this go on.