"I can't breathe any more. There's too much smoke. I'm inside. You are killing me."
Zyma Islam typed that on Facebook well past midnight on 18 December. She was not reporting from a battlefield.
She was trapped on the roof of her own newsroom in Dhaka, one of 28 journalists and staff cornered by a mob that had set their building ablaze.
That evening Islam, an investigative reporter at The Daily Star - Bangladesh's largest English-language newspaper - was filing the lead story on the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent figure in the youth movement that had ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August.
Hadi had been shot by masked attackers outside a Dhaka mosque the previous week and died in a Singapore hospital.
