An employee at the U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh, who was also the editor of Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine, was one of two men hacked to death on Monday evening. The men were in an apartment in Dhaka, when six young men disguised as couriers delivering a package entered the apartment and hacked the men to death. The two men killed were Xulhaz Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar, and Amnesty International has reported that the Bangladesh authorities have done little to try to prevent attacks like this against the LGBT community. Instead, the authorities have asked for the community to be "less provocative."
I think the Bangladesh authorities need to put more effort into protecting these targeted members of the community, because it would increase the overall safety of the area. Also, it is their job to protect the LGBT members of the society as much as they would protect anyone else. This reminds me of the Iran Hostage Crisis, in which American Embassy workers were held for 444 days by Iranian revolutionaries.
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This is awful and I completely agree, if they were to protect them more these horrible things wouldn't happen.
ReplyDeleteThis is really awful, and I cannot believe that this has not been talked about more. Were there signs of a potential threat to the man, and if so, did the American government do anything to protect this employee? Additionally, the response of the Bangladesh government is very discouraging. Hopefully, this will change in the near future.
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