US wants justice for killers of gay Bangladeshi activists

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By Akhtar Ali
16 hours ago

NEW DELHI (RNS) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is urging Bangladesh’s prime minister to find those responsible for the hacking to death of two LGBT activists this week by suspected Islamists.

Five machete-wielding militants on Monday (April 25) stormed into the apartment of Xulhaz Mannan, 35, who worked for the U.S. Embassy in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, and killed him and a friend who was also a gay rights activist.

In a phone call with Kerry on Thursday, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina insisted that her government has a “zero tolerance policy” against all terrorist activities and would hunt the killers, her press secretary Ehsanul Karim told a news conference.

The slaying of Mannan, who was also editor of Roopbaan, Bangladesh’s first magazine for gay, bisexual and transgender people, has deeply shocked that segment of Bangladesh’s population as well as the country’s embattled community of free-thinking intellectuals.

http://religionnews.com/2016/04/29/us-wants-justice-for-killers-of-gay-bangladeshi-activists/

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1. Bangladesh tailor hacked to death in Tangail

A Hindu tailor has been hacked to death in a district of central Bangladesh, police say, the latest of a number of such killings in the country.

Nikhil Joarder, who was in his early 50s, was attacked as he sat outside his shop in Tangail on Saturday afternoon.

Police said he had been arrested in 2012 for allegedly making derogatory comments about Islam, then released.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36177810

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2. This is reaching daily proportions.

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3. intolerance is increasing day by day

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4. Welcome to DU.