What they say
Politicians say
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"Yesterday's [Saturday's] attacks are isolated incidents and such attacks occur also in other countries."
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal
"Nobody is safe from the secret and sudden attacks by armed militants. Even I am not free from the danger of such attacks."
Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu
"Many communal parties that do not believe in freethinking are in the BNP-led 20-party alliance. They are the ones who are killing freethinking bloggers and publishers."
AL Publicity Affairs Secretary Hasan Mahmud
"A country opposed our Liberation War. That country has created militancy in different countries of the world ... Now the question is whether that country is playing any dangerous game over Bangladesh."
Food Minister Qamrul Islam
"It's a clear militant attack. Such series killings just before the execution of two top war criminals indicate that those murders were not possible without the patronisation by anti-liberation forces."
Workers Party of Bangladesh, a component of the AL-led ruling alliance
Writers say
"We are not only shocked [by the killings and attacks] but also frustrated as none of the cases has been solved."
Prof Emeritus Anisuzzaman
"The people doing these activities are misguided. Such activities aren't allowed in any religion, especially in a religion of peace like Islam ... Such incidents are recurring because the previous cases were not solved."
Prof Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury
"These incidents malign our centuries-old achievements. Such incidents happened never before in the life of the Bangalees."
Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan, Director General of Bangla Academy
"I believe extremist forces have done this. If the government fails to contain these elements, security of people's lives cannot be ensured."
Hasan Azizul Haque
"I am outraged and angry ... I request the government to do something about it immediately and ensure security for the publishing media."
Syed Shamsul Haque
"I wonder how long the government will keep silent! How long will we, the peace-loving people, have to put up with these brutalities? We want to be liberated from this ... I'm shocked and scared."
Selina Hossain
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