Editor
of magazine for LGBT community said to be among latest victims of wave of
violence targeting liberal activists.
Two people have been
hacked to death at an apartment, including an editor of a transgender magazine
in the Bangladesh.
Another person was
also killed and one person injured when three attackers entered their apartment
in Dhaka posing as couriers and attacked them with sharp weapons, police said
on Monday.
Julhas Mannan ran a
transgender magazine Rupban and previously worked at the US embassy. The other
person killed was a gay-rights activisit.
"Unidentified
attackers entered an apartment at Kalabagan and hacked two people to
death," Maruf Hossain Sorder, Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman, told
AFP.
The incident comes
two days after a university professor was killed in a similar fashion in an
attack in Rajshahi claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL,
also known as ISIS) group.
Al Jazeera's Tanvir
Chowdhury, reporting from Dhaka, said at least three assailants critically
injured a security guard on their way out of the building.
"There is major
fear in the country and the government is denying involvement of international
terrorists or ISIL in the country even after the groups have highlighted that
Bangladesh is one of their operating base," he said.
"There has not
been too much of progress in investigations and with these kind of attacks
space for freedom of speech is diminishing in the country."
Earlier this month,
Nazimuddin Samad, a 28-year-old law student, was hacked to death by three men
riding a motorcycle as he walked with a friend in central Dhaka.
Last year,
assailants hacked to death at least four atheist bloggers and a secular
publisher in a long-running series of killings of secular activists.
The Muslim-majority
country has seen a surge in violent attacks over the past few months in which
liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups
have been targeted.
"Two People
Hacked to Death in Bangladesh's Capital."
Aljazeera. Al Jazeera and Agencies, 25 Apr. 2016. Web. 25 Apr.
2016. <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/people-hacked-death-bangladesh-capital-160425141155758.html>.
The article talks
about how international terrorist groups or ISIL seems to be attacking secular
and liberal activists. It seems as if the nation isn't taking action for the
incidents of death and it seems like the attacks aren't ceasing, therefore I
think the nation should investigate the cases more thoroughly and protect its
citizens more readily. After reading the article the author seems to be biased
against the Muslim sects, claiming them to be the terrorists that repeatedly
attacked these reporters and citizens. Despite the governments denial for the
involvement of international terrorists, it seems after reading the details of
ISIL having an operation base in Bangladesh that the government is wrong in its
denials. Therefore I think the government should take action to ensure
protection for all its citizens and to investigate the cases of death with more
detail.
