article_snippet.sent: While most bloggers have not been the targets of murderers, Bangladesh has recently become the exception.
article_snippet.sent: On Monday, Washiqur Rahman Babu was the second blogger to be hacked to death in public in Bangladesh in the past five weeks.
article_snippet.sent: The blogger death toll gets higher in Bangladesh if you go back a year or two, and religious beliefs are always involved, and the killings almost always carried out with near perfect impunity.
article_snippet.sent: In January 2013, blogger Asif Mohiuddin, who wrote critical commentary on religion, Islamist groups, free speech, and human rights, barely survived after he was stabbed by Islamists.
article_snippet.sent: In February 2013, blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, who had written about Islamic fundamentalism and Islamist groups, was hacked to death by members of an Islamist militant group, according to police investigations.
article_snippet.sent: Later in 2013, Islamist groups called for the execution of bloggers
article_snippet.sent: Islamist groups said had committed blasphemy.