Free thinker humanist Avijit Roy was killed by Islamic terrorists today.

Avijit Roy (42) was an engineer,science writer,blogger,atheist,feminist,humanist,freethinker,human rights activist, courageous defender of reason and free speech, and the founder of Mukto-Mona freethought blogging site for Bengali and South Asian freethinkers. He lived in the USA, but arrived in Bangladesh to attend the inauguration ceremony of his new books at the national book fair in Dhaka. After the ceremony tonight he and his wife left the book fair at around 8.30 pm.

And then when they were on their way to home and not far from the book fair, Islamic fanatics hacked Avijit to death. The wife has been severely injured.

Avijit’s father Dr Ajoy Roy is a former professor of physics at the Dhaka university. He is also a writer and free thinker.

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Avijit Roy was an extra ordinary talented person. He dedicated his life to enlighten people who live in the darkness of ignorance. I knew him since mid ’90s. I admired him so much. It is so painful to accept that he is no more. Bangladesh has become a secret ISIS land. Islamic terrorists can do whatever they like. They can kill people with no qualms whatsoever. Avijit Roy has been killed the way other free thinker writers were killed in Bangladesh. No free thinker is safe in Bangladesh.