Extremist Violence Grows in Bangladesh

On April 25, a group of men posing as couriers murdered a Bangladeshi gay rights activist and his friend at a Dhaka apartment building. The killing of 35 year old Xulhaz Mannan, who edited Bangladesh’s first magazine for lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people, and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, a 25 year old actor, was the latest in a series of attacks by suspected Islamist extremists.