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posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 14 2015, @12:16AM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by zugedneb on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:00AM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:00AM (#182787)

    so, who else is doing it?
    in the part of the world I live, it is they...

    also, wtf with all these downmods?
    as fast as anyone mentions the dark side of humanity, some jesuswannabe takes to the mod broom...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:04AM (#182788)

    > >So, you don't have a problem with what they do, only who is doing it.
    >
    > so, who else is doing it?

    I am going to take that as violent agreement.

    • (Score: 1, Troll) by zugedneb on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:07AM

      by zugedneb (4556) on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:07AM (#182791)

      I do not understand your posts...
      but now that I think about what I have read in the news in the last few years, "arabs" must be substituted by "muslims" in general.
      It was a mistake by me not to write it so...

      Apart from muslims, I do not know other cultures that punish the woman that severely...

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      • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:18AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:18AM (#182795)

        > I do not understand your posts...

        Racist too stupid to realize he's racist.
        News at 11!

        • (Score: 2) by zugedneb on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:30AM

          by zugedneb (4556) on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:30AM (#182799)

          I would not call myself racist, since I do not reason in terms of race...
          However, definitely Culturalist, or maybe in some cases, nationalist.

          Also, I am not from USA, so my interpretation of Racist may not be the same as yours.
          Enlighten me, why not...

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:04AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:04AM (#182816)

            > However, definitely Culturalist, or maybe in some cases, nationalist.

            Because a culture where "good arians with pristine white muscle get out and execute some imams" is so obviously superior.

          • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:59PM

            by isostatic (365) on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:59PM (#183117) Journal

            You lost, your snivelling leader shot himself in 1945 after hiding in a cellar for months.