On 12 June 1996 Bangladesh Army led by Lt. Ferdous abducted Kalpana Chakma (23), a human rights activist from her home at Lallyaghona village. Kalpana Chakma is still missing. It is believed that she might have been killed if she did not agree to marry Lieutenant Ferdous, the officer who led the abduction. Abduction of indigenous women is not unusual in CHT. Abduction and forced marriage of indigenous women are used as a technique to islamize the indigenous Buddhist people of CHT.

BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) rape indigenous Chakma refugees in Barkal

In May 1984 many indigenous Chakma Buddhists took refuge in Mizoram state of India to escape brutal massacres and rape committed by the Bangladesh army, BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) and Muslim settlers in Gorosthan and Bhusan Chara.

On 29 January 1986, the Indian and Mizoram Governments pushed back the Chakma refugees and handed them over to the BDR against their will. Women refugees were barbarously raped by the BDR personnel in the motor launch in which the refugees were being brought from the Mizoram border to unknown destination of concentration camps.

Most barbarous and uncivilised ill treatment meted out to the Chakma refugees in the motor launch was men and women were separated into two groups. Male refugees were taken to the upper deck so that they would not be able to give any resistance to the BDR personnel while molesting the women refugees who were kept in the lower deck.

The BDR personnel at gun point undressed all the women refugees despite their utmost resistance and cries for help and to spare them from such beastly treatment. One of the BDR personnel then said to these panic-stricken women refugees-

"You dirty kafirs, there is nobody in the world who could save you now from us. why did you go to bloody India? Do you think bloody India can save you right now?"

With these words the BDR personnel swooped upon the helpless women and girls molesting everyone. The following girls and women were taken to the upper deck, forced into a cabin and gang raped:

1. Niralata Chakma, 25 yrs, wife of Karuna Mohan Chakma of Gorosthan, P.S. (Police Station) Barkal.
2. Lakshmi Mita Chakma, 17 yrs, daughter of Patyaram Chakma, address as above.
3. Suranga Devi Chakma, 18 yrs, daughter of Rajani Mohan Chakma, address as above.
4. Virasashi Chakma, 24 yrs, wife of Suresh Kumar Chakma of Bhusan Chara P.S. Barkal.

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