DHAKA, Bangladesh - Another Bangladeshi blogger has received
a death threat as targeted killings of secular bloggers and personalities have
left at least three dead in the past three months.
Ananya Azad told Al Jazeera on Thursday that unidentified
suspects in a Facebook message had threatened to kill him and dump
his body at a national monument.
his body at a national monument.
- Azad, whose father Humayun was attacked by members of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen organisation in 2004, said he would be killed in a "similar manner" in order to silence others like him.
- "Since you are the son of the atheist chief, we are tense about you...we will kill you in a similar way, we will cut you to pieces," the threat read.
Three liberal bloggers have been killed this year in
Bangladesh, the latest as recent as May 12.
Atheist blogger, Ananta Bijoy Das, was hacked to death by
unknown assailants in the Subid Bazar area of Sylhet city, 240km from the
capital Dhaka, as he walked to work.
Avijit Roy, a US-Bangladeshi who was visiting the country to
publicise his book criticising religion, was killed in February.
publicise his book criticising religion, was killed in February. Source: Al Jazeera
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