A senior editor at Bangladesh’s first LGBT magazine Roopbaan has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka. the murder is the latest in a series of religiously-motivated killings in the country. The Dhaka Tribune reported 35 year old Xulhaz Mannan, was the founder and editor of the magazine and also worked at the US development agency USAID. Armed militants disguised as courier workers entered the flat where Mannan lived and killed him along with his friend Tanay Mojumdar.
The killing comes after a university teacher was killed by suspected Islamist militants.
Earlier in April, a Bangladeshi law student was hacked to death in Dhaka. The student had railed against Islamism on his Facebook page.
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