American-Bangladeshi Blogger Savagely Murdered in Dhaka
The brutal February 26 attack follows multiple death threats made against Avijit Roy.
This is sickening and deeply upsetting news.
Per a report in The New York Times, a pair of machete-wielding attackers swooped down Thursday night at a book fair in Bangladesh’s capital on author-blogger Avijit Roy, 42, and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya, 45. He died as a result of the attack; she remains in critical condition. From the article:
Roy was a prolific writer on secularism and condemned religious extremism, particularly through his blog, Mukto-Mona, the Bengali words for Free Mind.
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