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| Bangladesh publishers burn books to protest killing |
| 2015-11-03 |
| DHAKA — Angry publishers burned books and closed their businesses in Bangladesh on Monday, in the third day of protests over the latest gruesome attacks on secular writers and publishers by suspected hard-line militants. Hundreds of people, including book-shop owners, took to the streets of Dhaka to protest perceived government inaction over a string of attacks including the machete murder on Saturday of a publisher of secular books. “This is not an isolated incident. They first started killing authors, then the bloggers and now they’ve targeted the publishers,” Mustafa Selim, head of the Bangladesh Creative Publishers Society, said. Rallies were also held in other cities and towns to demand more protection for publishers, bloggers and writers, some of whom have fled the country or gone into hiding, rally organisers said in a statement. Fears of Islamist violence have been rising in mainly moderate Muslim-majority Bangladesh after four atheist bloggers were murdered this year, also by machete-wielding attackers. Bangladesh has also been rocked by the recent murders of an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer, while Dhaka’s main Shiite shrine was bombed last month, killing two people and wounding dozens. After staging protests on Saturday night and Sunday, secular activists including hundreds of teachers, writers and students also resumed their rallies at Dhaka University, the nation’s main secular bastion. “The murderers should be caught as soon as possible. There must be an end to this nightmare,” publisher Farid Ahmed, who received a death threat in a text message on Sunday, said. On Saturday, a gang of suspected militants armed with machetes and cleavers hacked to death Faisal Arefin Dipan in his publishing office in the capital. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 When swimming with Bangla believers, Be wary of tropical fevers. Their red Muslim river May give you a shiver (and then there's the bombs and the cleavers). |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-11-03 19:35 |
| #2 You talking death but Pinto? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-11-03 19:05 |
| #1 might I suggest you burn some Islamists instead of books? Auto-da-fe ring a bell? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-11-03 11:18 |