Blogger and writer Avijit Roy has been killed and his wife, blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonna, severely injured when unidentified miscreants hacked them at TSC of Dhaka University on Thursday night.
Avijit, son of former DU teacher Dr Ajay Roy and also the founder of Mukto-mona Blog, and his wife have been admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition immediately after the attack.
Later, he died while undergoing treatment around 10:30pm, said Shahbagh police station OC Sirajul Islam.
This is horrifying.
They’ll kill us all.
DU Proctor Amjad Ali said: “I came to know the writer had been receiving threats from militants because of his anti-communal activism.”
Among the teachers of Dhaka University who rushed to Dhaka Medical College hospital hearing the news of the attack, were Professor Dr Abul Barkat, Professor Anwar Hossain.
Professor Anwar Hossain said the those, who are against the country’s liberation, democracy, free thoughts and attacked Humayun Azad, have perpetrated this.
Liton Nandi, Dhaka University Chhatra Union president, told the Dhaka Tribune they were set to bring a torch procession, protesting the attack and killing in a short time.
We need to get Taslima the hell out of the subcontinent.
Earlier in 2014, online bookstore Rokomari.com stopped selling books by the well-known writer after an Islamic militant issued death threats on Facebook to the website’s owner.
The decision to withdraw his books was prompted by death threats posted to Facebook by Farabi Shafiur Rahman, an Islamist extremist allegedly linked to Jamaat-e-Islami.
Farabi accused Avijit of defaming Islam and the “prophet” Mohammed and accused Rokomari.com chairman Mahmudul Hasan Sohag of “promoting atheism” by selling his books.
In his Facebook post, Farabi specified the office address of Rokomari.com and called upon his “Islamist friends” in the adjacent locality to attack.
He also told Sohag that he would suffer the same fate as Ahmed Rajib Haider, a popular blogger known by the psuedonym Thaba Baba, who was hacked to death last year by machete-wielding Islamic militants.
One by one, they’re picking us off.
Holy shit. This is horrifying. We were friends on Facebook and communicated occasionally, but we had a lot of common and close friends. I can’t think straight right now.
It is, it is, it is. I’m able to think straight only because I’m doing something specific in response.
I don’t understand the moniker “extremist” or islamic extremist” either.
Those sentences would more accurately read:
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Earlier in 2014, online bookstore Rokomari.com stopped selling books by the well-known writer after a murderer issued death threats on Facebook to the website’s owner.
The decision to withdraw his books was prompted by death threats posted to Facebook by Farabi Shafiur Rahman, a murderer allegedly linked to Jamaat-e-Islami.
In his Facebook post, Farabi specified the office address of Rokomari.com and called upon his “murdering friends” (or “fellow murderers” would work here) in the adjacent locality to attack.
He also told Sohag that he would suffer the same fate as Ahmed Rajib Haider, a popular blogger known by the psuedonym Thaba Baba, who was hacked to death last year by machete-wielding murderers.
Takes the mystery out of the whole thing and no one has to really give a shit why someone says they’re killing, as though it mattered.
I corresponded a bit with Avijit, too. It had been some years. The odd email is all, really. Still, I’m a bit…
Now that I think about it: ‘pissed’. Pissed seems to come to mind.
Open memo to his murderers: ain’t neither of you, your hallucinatory god, nor your fraudulent prophet was ever worth a pimple on Avijit’s brave ass. You know it, I know it , everyone knows it. But thanks for re-emphasizing it again, I guess, all the same.
Oh yes. I do mean it. Fuck the lying, murdering lot of you.
And to those still in shock, forgive the cliché, but:
First mourn, then work for change.