Blogger Hacked To Death In Bangladesh For Opposing Fundermentalism.

A blogger was hacked to death by machete-wielding attackers in Bangladesh on Tuesday, the third killing of a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation in less than three months.


Ananta Bijoy Das, a blogger who advocated secularism, was attacked by four assailants in the northeastern district of Sylhet on Tuesday morning, senior police official Mohammad Rahamatullah said.

Rahamatullah said Das was a 33-year-old banker.

Das wrote for 'Mukto Mona', or free mind, a website propagating rationalism and opposing fundamentalism that was founded by U.S.-based blogger Avijit Roy.

Roy himself was hacked to death in February while returning with his wife from a Dhaka book fair.