Bangladesh publishers burn books in protest at murder of secularists | World news | The Guardian
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Demonstrations have continued over fatal attacks by suspected hardline Islamists on secular writers and publishers in Bangladesh as books were burned and businesses closed in protest.
Hundreds of people, including writers, publishers and bookshop owners, took to the streets of the capital, Dhaka, on Monday to protest what they said was government inaction over a string of attacks, including the murder on Saturday of a publisher of secular books.
“This is not an isolated incident. They first started killing authors, then the bloggers and now they’ve targeted the publishers,” Mustafa Selim, head of the Bangladesh Creative Publishers Society, told reporters.