Bloggers say they can hardly trust police.
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Several bloggers say they can hardly trust police for security after receiving death threats.
They say they have lost faith in police for delivering on investigations of murdered fellow bloggers.
Four secular bloggers have been murdered in the past six months and police has failed to crack any of these cases.
After the murder of Niladri Chatterjee Niloy this month, bdnews24.com received a letter from ‘Ittehadul Mujahideen’ threatening to kill 19 people, which include bloggers, ministers, teachers, and Ganajagaran Mancha organisers.
Police says they have never heard of a radical Islamist group called ‘Ittehadul Mujahideen’
bdnews24.com has spoken to several of those threatened by the group.
Ganajagaran activist Mahmudul Haque Munshi said a police detective wanted addresses of some bloggers after the threat.
“I communicated with those bloggers and explained the matter to them; but none of them agreed to take help from police,” he said.
No one can rely on the police now, he said. Continue Reading … [/su_column] [/su_row]