Bangladesh Journalists Welfare Foundation (BSKF)
Government's role disappointing over Gazipur incidents
What a horrific scene! A group of youths are hacking and slitting a journalist's throat on the street! A video circulating on social media shows a man being murdered in a festive atmosphere. If there were any signs of anger on the faces of the murderers, it could still be said that this is an expression of some kind of anger. But what can we say about these gruesome murderers with smiling faces? In another video, a journalist is seen being beaten up indiscriminately by a group of youths in presence of police. They are pelting him with brick. Such a brutal murder and beating scene on the street would leave any sensitive person speechless and shocked. Both the one who was murdered and the one who was beaten up and seriously injured are local journalists. This is not the first incident of journalist torture in Bangladesh. But this is the first time that the horrific scene of a journalist being murdered on the street in front of hundreds of people has been seen.