Here are some of the attacks this year alone:
July 7: Two policemen and a civilian are killed in explosions and gunfire at a huge prayer meeting in the northern district of Kishoreganj marking the start of Eid.
- July 1: Islamists kill 20 hostages and two policemen in an overnight siege at a Western-style cafe in Dhaka. Many of the victims, who include 18 foreigners, are hacked to death with machetes. On the same day a Hindu temple worker is hacked to death in western Bangladesh.
- June 15: A Hindu college lecturer is seriously wounded after being hacked by three men in the southern town of Madripur.
- June 10: A 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker is hacked to death during his morning walk.
- June 6: A 70-year-old Hindu priest is found murdered in the western district of Jhenidah.
- June 5: Christian Sunil Gomes, 65, is hacked to death after Sunday prayers near a church in the northwest village of Bonpara.
- May 20: Sanaur Rahman, 58, a homeopathic doctor, is murdered while riding a motorcycle in the western town of Kushtia.
- May 14: A 75-year-old Buddhist monk is found hacked to death in Baishari.
- May 7: A local Sufi Muslim leader is found chopped to death in a mango grove in the northwestern city of Rajshahi.
- April 30: A Hindu tailor is hacked to death in central Bangladesh.
- April 25: Two leading gay rights activists are chopped to death in an apartment building in Dhaka.
- April 23: University English professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, is cut down and fatally wounded in Rajshahi.
- April 7: Nazimuddin Samad, a 26-year-old law student and atheist who had taken part in protests against Islamist leaders, is murdered near his university in Dhaka.
- March 22: Attackers hack to death 68-year-old Hossain Ali, who converted to Christianity from Islam in 1999, in the town of Kurigram.
- February 21: A top Hindu priest Jogeswar Roy, 45, is decapitated in his temple in northern Bangladesh.
