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from the remind-us-to-unpublish-our-blog-urls dept.
Ars reports on the most recent blogger death in Bangladesh:
Assailants with cleavers and machetes on Tuesday killed another blogger in Bangladesh, the third blogger in that country murdered in as many months, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Another blogger killed in Bangladesh earlier this year used Facebook as his medium, the committee said.
The committee said that Ananta Bijoy Das, who wrote about science and railed against religious fundamentalism, was killed Tuesday by four masked men in the northeastern city of Sylhet in broad daylight.
The death of Das brings to at least 20 the number of writers murdered globally this year, according to CPJ statistics. Bangladesh is ranked 13th globally with at least 16 killed since 1992.
An American blogger (of Bangladeshi origin) was an earlier victim this year.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:12AM
Modding the parent offtopic was just petty and stupid. The post was at least tangentially on topic. Somebody apparently has a grudge against the poster. Hunt the modder down, take his mod points away and slap his peepee. Asshole.
(Score: 0, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:26AM
... and is the reason that every time someone writes a wikipedia article about me, it's marked for deletion, with the specious claim that I'm not notable enough for wikipedia, because I'm only well-known as kuro5hin.
In reality, I was notable enough for wikipedia long before the best part of jimmy wales dripped down his mother's leg.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 14 2015, @05:47PM
[Citation Needed]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:24AM
> The post was at least tangentially on topic.
It was yet another post by MDC about MDC. Just more first post noise.