Xulhaz Mannan

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Xulhaz Mannan ( Bengali জুলহাজ মান্নান ; * 1976 according to his Bangladeshi passport and his Facebook page, according to other sources 1980 or 1981; †  April 25, 2016 in Dhaka ) was an employee of USAID and LGBT activist from Bangladesh . Mannan was murdered by Islamist extremists.

Life

Xulhaz Mannan studied international relations and received a bachelor's degree in social sciences in 2000. In 2003 he completed his master's degree in peace and conflict research at Dhaka University . Mannan worked for the US Embassy in Bangladesh for eight years and for USAID since September 2015. He was the founder of the first and only LGBT magazine in Bangladesh, Roopbaan .

Mannan was jointly responsible for the Rainbow Rally , which was first held in Dhaka on Bengali New Year's Day in April 2014. The Gay Pride Parade, which was to take place a few days before his death in 2016, had to be canceled due to threats.

assassination

Mannan, along with a friend, Mahbub Tonoy, who was also an LGBT activist, was attacked and killed with machetes on April 25, 2016 in Mannan's apartment in the Kalabagan district of Dhaka . The perpetrators were disguised as parcel couriers and, according to eyewitnesses, shouted " Allahu Akbar " when they left the apartment after the crime. Al-Qaeda confessed to the act.

The American ambassador to Bangladesh, Marcia Bernicat , called the murder a "senseless act of violence" and called on the government of Bangladesh "in the strongest terms" to make every effort on behalf of the US government To arrest perpetrators. Mannan's death joins a series of murders of secular political activists in Bangladesh in recent years.

On August 5, 2016, the Bangladeshi police authorities announced that specifically five suspects had been identified as those involved in the murder. These people are being searched for.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruma Paul: Gay rights activist and editor Xulhaz Mannan murdered in Bangladesh. In: dailylife.com. Daily Life, April 26, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ Catherine Garcia: Activist, editor of Bangladesh's only LGBT magazine hacked to death In: theweek.com. Daily Life, April 25, 2016, accessed May 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ Bangladesh: LGBT activist brutally murdered. In: Queeramnesty. Retrieved May 2, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Statement by USAID Administrator Gayle Smith on the Death of Foreign Service National Xulhaz Mannan. ( Memento from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: usaid.gov. USAID , April 25, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Kamrul Hasan, Mohammad Jamil Khan: LGBT Magazine Roopbaan editor among two hacked to death. ( Memento from April 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: dhakatribune.com. Dhaka Tribune , April 26, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ewan Palmer: Xulhaz Mannan: Editor of Bangladesh LGBT magazine Roopbaan hacked to death in Dhaka. In: ibtimes.co.uk. International Business Times , April 25, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Webermann: Blogger murders in Bangladesh - "You will soon die". In: tagesschau.de. ARD , April 27, 2016, accessed on April 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for killing Bangladesh gay rights activist and his friend. In: nationalpost.com. National Post , April 26, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ Bangladesh LGBT editor hacked to death. In: bbc.com. BBC News , April 25, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016.
  10. ^ Editor of Bangladesh's first gay rights magazine stabbed to death. In: foxnews.com. Fox News , April 25, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016.
  11. ↑ Ghulam Mujtaba Dhruba: 'Five identified' in Xulhaz, Tonoy killing. bdnews24.com, August 5, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Mannan, Xulhaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION USAID Bengali employee and LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1980 or 1981
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2016
Place of death Dhaka , Bangladesh