Secular Student Activist Nazimuddin Samad Murdered in Bangladesh

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Secular Student Activist Nazimuddin Samad Murdered in Bangladesh

7:50 CAT | 07 Apr 2016

CNN / Nazimuddin Samad, 26, was murdered by machete-wielding assailants.

A Bangladeshi student activist has been brutally murdered in Dhaka by group of machete-wielding attackers.

Postgraduate law student Nazimuddin Samad was hacked with machetes and then shot by motorcycle-riding assailants as he was returning from class Wednesday at Jagannath University.

Dhaka police believe Samad was targeted for his outspoken views, which often criticized radical Islam and promoted secularism in the Muslim-majority country.

Samad’s murder follows a series of similar attacks last year, when at least five secular writers and a publisher were killed. A banned Islamist militant group claimed responsibility for some of the attacks.

Police say no one has been arrested and no group immediately claimed responsibility, but say people heard the attackers shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is Great) as they fled the scene.

Samad was on a hit list of 84 atheist bloggers that a radical Islamist group compiled and sent to Bangladesh’s interior ministry.

Hundreds of students at the university where Samad studied protested his murder, demanding the prompt arrest of the killers.

Some international proponents of freedom of expression said the ongoing attacks show the Bangladeshi government is failing to protect its people.

Source: VOA News