Modern rationalist receives a lesson in atavistic terror.
Witnesses said they were on a rickshaw returning from the Amar Ekushey Book Fair when two attackers stopped it, dragged them onto the footpath and started hacking them.
They were rushed to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared Avijit dead during an emergency surgery, its police outpost Inspector Mozzamel Haque told bdnews24.com.
DMCH casualty department’s Residential Surgeon Riaz Morshed also confirmed bdnews24.com about Avijit Roy’s death.
I was only dimly aware of Avijit Roy so I don't know too much about him, but he was an advocate of atheism according to Wikipedia. The setting of his death (dragged from a rickshaw while returning from a Book Fair) couldn't be more picturesque like a scene from a Movie meant to bludgeon you with its symbolism. A message so ham-handed & unsubtle it would take someone with decades of training at our finest Universities to miss it.
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