Prominent Secular Writer Dragged Out of Shop by Jihadis, Shot Dead in Bangladesh - Sharia

Assassinated under Islamic law. Shahzahan Bachchu had previously received threats from devout Muslim groups due to his outspoken support for secularism. He was a former district general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh and was known as a free-thinking writer.

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Shahzahan Bachchu, who was gunned down, has been a target of jihadis for quite some time, according to the police and one of his acquaintances.

“His name was among the list of progressive thinkers that the extremists had prepared for execution,” he said, citing the family of the victim.

Prominent Bangladeshi Writer Dragged Out Of Shop, Shot Dead

Police officials from counter-terrorism department are investigating the murder as a possible targeted attack by Islamist extremists.

World | Press Trust of India | Updated: June 12, 2018:

DHAKA: A prominent Bangladeshi writer and publisher was dragged out of a shop and shot dead by unidentified attackers in central Bangladesh, ending a lull in the killings of secular bloggers and activists in the Muslim-majority country.

Shahzahan Bachchu, 60, an outspoken proponent of secular principles and owner of a publishing house ‘Bishaka Prokashoni’ that specialised in publishing poetry, was gunned down in his ancestral village Kakaldi in Munshiganj district last evening by five assailants.

Shahzahan Bachchu had gone to meet friends at a pharmacy shop near his home before iftar, when the five attackers on two motorcycles came into the area. They blasted a crude bomb outside the pharmacy, creating panic, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

They then dragged Shahzahan out of the shop and shot him, a senior superintendent of police was quoted as saying by the daily.

Although no group has claimed responsibility, police officials from the counter-terrorism department are investigating the murder as a possible targeted attack by Islamist extremists.

Shahzahan Bachchu had previously received threats from extremist groups due to his outspoken support for secularism. He was a former district general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh and was known as a free-thinking writer. His publishing house Bishaka is based in Dhaka’s Banglabazar area.