Timeline of Bangladeshi bloggers hacked to death

Bangladesh in recent times has seen a spate of attacks on secular and liberal thought. Bloggers, journalists and students have been brutally hacked to death by fundamentalist elements in the country.

This thread of violence by radical Islamists runs from the most recent murder of an English professor at Rajshahi University to the 1993, fatwa against author Taslima Nasreen following release of her book “Lajja”.

Here we take a look at timeline of the more recent attacks on secular bloggers in Bangladesh.