Staff Reporter: Bangladeshis, including New York expatriate civil society, have demanded that the killers of writer and blogger Abhijit Roy be brought to justice immediately. Abhijit Roy was commemorated by lighting a lamp at Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights on Saturday, local time. The expatriates demanded that the killers of Abhijit Roy be brought to justice immediately.
Speaking on the occasion organized under the banner of expatriate civil society, the speakers said that even if Abhijit is killed, his philosophy cannot be killed. They further said, “The defeated forces are carrying out these killings to destroy the achievements of the liberation war, to kill the non-communal consciousness, to eradicate the idea of free will.”
They called upon the government to crack down on these evil forces so that no more free thinkers would die and also to build a proper social system to promote non-communalism in various sectors besides education. Speakers at the rally demanded an immediate trial of Abhijit’s murder and a ban on all forms of communal politics in Bangladesh. Community activist Mithun Ahmed, Gopal Sanyal, journalist Shah J Chowdhury, Abdul Hamid, Jasad leader Nur A Alam Jiku, photo journalist Rinku and others spoke on the occasion.
It may be mentioned that on February 26, 2015, on the way back from Amar Ekushey Book Fair, miscreants attacked Abhijit and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya in front of TSC. Abhijit died on the spot. The flood was seriously injured.
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