Zionist regime behind murders of Bangladesh bloggers, minister suggests

The Bangladeshi home minister suggests the Israeli regime is spearheading an “international conspiracy” behind the serial killings of secular intellectuals and religious minorities in the Asian country.

According to the reports, Asaduzzaman Khan said on Monday that there is evidence of an “international conspiracy” against the Muslim-majority country, which backs the Palestinian cause and has no diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv.

“Bangladesh has become the target of an international conspiracy. And a foreign intelligence agency has joined the conspiracy,” Khan said.

He touched upon a meeting between an opposition politician and an Israeli intelligence agent as evidence of Israeli involvement in the wave of murders.

“You must have noticed that an Israeli intelligence agent had a meeting with a politician, it does not need to be verified further, all [Bangladeshis] know about it.”

Opposition MP Aslam Chowdhury was recently arrested and accused of sedition after his photographs with Zionist politcian Mendi Safadi in India was published.

Chowdhury has denied the meeting and said he was on a business trip to India.

Khan’s remarks came on the same day that police found the dead body of Ananda Gopal Ganguly, 70-year-old Hindu priest, near his home in a village of western Jhenidah District.

According to police, the victim had his head nearly severed from his body.

A day earlier, senior police officer’s wife, Mahmuda Aktar, had also been stabbed and shot dead in front of her six-year-old son in the city of Chittagong.

Also on Sunday, Sunil Gomes, a Christian grocer, was hacked to death in the village of Bonpara in an attack claimed by the ISIL terrorist group.

Police say more than 40 people have been killed since January 2015 in the spate of killings.

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