Bangladeshi secular publisher hacked to deathhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34688245
A Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday, police say.
Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in the city centre, hours after another publisher and two secular writers were injured in an attack.
A local affiliate of al-Qaeda said it carried out the attacks.
There has been a series of attacks on secularists since blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death in February.
Both publishers targeted on Saturday published Roy's work.
Mr Dipon was found dead at the Jagriti Prokashoni publishing house, in his third-floor office.
"I saw him lying upside down and in a massive pool of blood. They slaughtered his neck. He is dead," his father, the writer Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, said, quoted by AFP.
Earlier on Saturday, armed men burst into the offices of publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul.
They stabbed Mr Tutul and two writers who were with him, locked them in an office and fled the scene, police said.
The three men were rushed to hospital, and at least one of them is in a critical condition.
The two writers were named by police as Ranadeep Basu and Tareque Rahim.
Ansar al-Islam, al-Qaeda's Bangladeshi affiliate, posted messages online saying it had carried out Saturday's attacks.
Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin and critic of radical Islamism, was murdered in February by suspected Islamists. His wife and fellow blogger Bonya Ahmed was badly injured in the attack.
Three other bloggers have since been killed.
Timeline: Attacks on bloggers
27 February: Avijit Roy attacked and killed while walking home from a book fair. His wife Bonya Ahmed was also hurt
30 March: Washiqur Rahman hacked to death near his home in Dhaka
12 May: Blogger Ananta Bijoy Das attacked and killed in Sylhet
7 August: Blogger Niloy Neel hacked to death at home by gang armed with machetes
freediver wrote on Oct 31
st, 2015 at 10:44pm:
Here's an example for you:
polite_gandalf wrote on May 25
th, 2013 at 10:17pm:
freediver wrote on May 25
th, 2013 at 9:27pm:
Self censorship is a reasonable course of action?
Absolutely. Its called being responsible gatekeepers of the infomation available. News rooms have to make these calls all the time - deciding whether its responsible to potentially inflame volatile relationships between groups by publishing contentious material.
freediver wrote on May 25
th, 2013 at 9:27pm:
Publishing the Muhammed cartoons would not stoke the "anti Muslim flames".
I disagree. The bomb in the turban cartoon made pretty clear insinuations about the entire muslim community.
If only they had heeded Gandalf's advice. Sounds to me like they were making insinuations and inflaming tensions.
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