Among them are the men behind Professor Siddiquee’s murder, former students frustrated by classes on literature which they considered transgressive. At the country’s second-largest university, where Siddiquee taught, professors are curtailing classes out of fear of their own students. A week after Siddiquee’s killing, three men on a motorbike roared into the village of a Hindu tailor, Nikhil Joarder, hacked him to death and threw his body in a ditch. Shortly after the killing, officers swooped on a working-class home near the murder site and picked up Mohammad Hafizur Rahman. “If they think they could turn Bangladesh upside down, they are wrong,” prime minister Sheikh Hasina told parliament before the raids.

Source: The Guardian June 11, 2016 22:52 UTC