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                Secular Student Activist Murdered in Bangladesh

   by Wayne Lee

   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.

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   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.
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