(Slide 8) Racial Equality . Political representation is far below the percentage of population. No top posts ever in Judiciary, Army, Air Force, Navy, Police and Border Security Force. Recruitment in Army, Air Force and Navy is almost nil apart from medical core. Lack of equal opportunity also results in biased reporting and playing down of racially motivated attacks, by both supporters of political parties and by news and media reporters. Hindus, Christians and Buddhists are second class citizens in Bangladesh. Minorities in Bangladesh; 1971 22%, 1974 13%, 2014 9% Minority numbers are predicted to be less than 5% in next 20 years. (Slide 9) Rise of Extremism Bangladesh is a secular democracy and recent surveys show that the majority of the population would like it to remain so. Religious minorities and intellectuals are terrified with the rise of extreriism in Bangladesh. Once the fanatics get power they will export the ideology. Western government need only look at Pakistan and Afghanistan to see where Bangladesh is heading. (Slide 10) Government Oppression and Attacks by Extremists By comparison, any subject spoken against Islam extremists is swiftly punished (Telecommunications Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui who was arrested and removed from office for his comments), see URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul Latif Siddiqui Chronologically, bloggers killed so far, Niloy Chatterjee, Washiq' ur Rahman Babu, Dr Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das. Publishers targeted: Faisal Arefin Dipan was murdered and Ahmedur Rashid Tutul along with 2 others were wounded in separate attacks; both printed Dr Avijit Roy's works. Section 57 of ICT Act introduced by Government restricting freedom of speech, e.g. journalist and senior editor Probir Sikdar arrested for criticising government minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain who was accused of land grabbing Hindu property; Mohan Kumar Mondal arrested after criticising Islam on Facebook. .