Saturday, February 28, 2015

Statement by Lord Avebury, Chairman of the International Bangladesh Foundation

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The whole world has gasped in horror at the hacking to death by machete-wielding terrorists of the secularist US-Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy, close to the heavily-guarded university book fair in Dhaka.
Police witnessed the murder but the killers were allowed to escape.
Extremist attacks on secularists and religious minorities add an extra dimension to the loss of more than 100 lives in the violence connected with blockades and demonstrations calling for new elections.
 The Awami League government and the opposition led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party must sit down together and chart the way back towards democracy and a united front against terrorism.  


 


February 28, 2015

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