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| Threatened continually, blogger Bijoy tried to leave Bangladesh |
| 2015-05-13 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Threatened for quite a long time, Blogger Ananta Bijoy was trying to leave Bangladesh for the last two months, Bijoy's friend and colleague Asif Mohiuddin told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. Ananta Bijoy, a banker by profession, was hacked dead in a machete attack this morning, the latest casualty in a series of barbaric liquidations of free thinkers, allegedly carried out by Islamist fundamentalists. "I was helping Bijoy get out of the country for the last two months. I got his papers together and submitted them to some organizations in order to get him out. "He was being threatened for a long time. He told me many times that he was on the [terrorists'] hit list and that he was still at home because of the threats. Some people attacked his house a few months ago. He was afraid and panicking. I told him not to leave his house, but he had to go to work," said Mohiuddin, a scholar now in Germany who survived both a similar attempt on his life in 2013, and being incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! here in Dhaka. "He was a very good friend and I am very upset," he mourned. Asif then expressed his opinions on the series attacks on online activists, thinly veiling a hint that government could be supporting the fundamentalists by being reluctant to act: "Maybe they don't care, or maybe they are afraid of them[fundamentalists]. I don't know. But after the death of Avijit Roy, the prime minister spoke to his father Ajay Roy. This was never mentioned in the media. It was a secret call to apologise; our prime minister thinks that her support for atheists would project a bad image for her party. "Our leaders don't want to be seen as supporters of secularists or atheists. They want to show that they are very Islamic; this is why fundamentalists have the courage to kill bloggers," he concluded. He then revisited the attack he survived: "When they attacked me, it lasted barely 30 seconds, but I was badly injured in that short time. Avijit Roy's wife told me that their attack lasted a minute at most. Before people around the victims could react, the murderers made away." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 brave men. we should stop immediately taking any islamist "refugees" and instead take atheists and free thinkers from islamist countries. Ship out Anjem Choudary and ship in any of Bijoy's blogging friends |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-05-13 05:06 |