Bangladesh publishers burn books to protest latest killing

November 02, 2015 23:02

Angry publishers burnt books and closed their businesses in Bangladesh today, in the third day of protests over the latest gruesome attacks on secular writers and publishers by suspected hardline Islamists.

Hundreds of people, including book-shop owners, took to the streets of Dhaka to protest perceived government inaction over a string of attacks including the machete murder on Saturday of a publisher of secular books.

"This is not an isolated incident. They first started killing authors, then the bloggers and now they've targeted the publishers," Mustafa Selim, head of the Bangladesh Creative Publishers Society, told reporters.

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