Monday, April 25, 2016
A senior editor at Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine Roopbaan and
leading gay rights activist has been hacked to death in the capital
Dhaka. He was killed today Monday, April 25, Dhaka Tribune reports.
Julhaz
Mannan, 35, (pictured with ambassador Dan Mozena) was the founder and
editor of the magazine and also worked at the US development agency
USAID.
The killing comes two days after a university lecturer was hacked
to death by suspected Islamist militant.
According to Dhaka Tribune, armed militants disguised as courier workers entered the flat where
Mannan lived and killed him along with his friend Tanay Mojumdar.
"The assailants then attacked me with knives," he said from Dhaka
Medical College Hospital where he's being treated for injuries.
Mannan, who had been behind an annual Rainbow Rally, received a
Superior Honor Award in 2014 from ambassador Dan Mozena for his
contribution to the US mission in Dhaka.
Marcia Bernicat, the US ambassador to Bangladesh, condemned the killing. Speaking to the Guardian, she said:
"I am devastated by the brutal murder of Xulhaz Mannan and another young Bangladeshi. We abhor this senseless act of violence and urge the government of
Bangladesh in the strongest terms to apprehend the criminals behind
these murders."
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