"Blogging has become a dangerous profession in Bangladesh... [Avijit Roy] and Mr. Rahman were the victims of murderous thugs, but they were also the victims of a poisonous political climate, in which secularists and Islamists, observant Muslims and atheists, Jamaat-e-Islami and the Awami League are pitted against one another. They battle for votes, for power, for the ideological upper hand. There seems to be no common ground."
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Author Tahmima Anam in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/opinion/tahmima-anam-save-bangladeshs-bloggers.html
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