The murder of LGBT campaigner Xulhaz Mannan is the latest attack on free speech in a country that seems to possess forgotten the lessons of its war of independenceThe final time I saw Xulhaz Mannan,who has been murdered for defending homosexual rights in Bangladesh, was at a dinner in May 2014. It was a balmy evening, or he and all his co-editors at Roopbaan,the country’s first and only LGBT magazine, were among those gathered at a Dhaka restaurant.
The conversation soon turned to Roopbaan’s upcoming second issue. They were still buzzing from the launch: the inaugural issue had sold out in a few days. Orders had advance in from as far away as New Zealand and the United States.
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Source: theguardian.com