Terror in CHT

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Vira Rani Chakma
On 19 December 1986, Bangladesh army men gang raped Vira Rani Chakma (16) of Nuaram Karbari Para, Dighinala. About 20 Bangladesh army personnel from the Viswa Ram Karbari Para army camp of Dighinala raided the indigenous Chakma village of Nuaram Karbari Para in the morning. All the male inhabitants of the village were taken by force to cut the jungle surrounding the army camp. Bangladesh army encircled the village at 11:00 a.m. and on the pretext of searching entered the houses. All the women and the girls who were in their houses, were stripped by the soldiers and were gang raped. Even the minors were not spared.

Bangladesh army rape indigenous Chakma women in Longudu

On February 18, 1986, Lt. Ahmed Sharif and soldiers of 26th EBR, Bangladesh army, Baranachari camp, Barabunnya Zone, raided the Chakma villages- Tunyachari and Petyachari committing rape and torture on the innocent inhabitants. Names of the victims are furnished below:

  1. Medoli Chakma, 22 yrs, wife of Kinamoni Chakma, of Petyachari, P.S. Longudu, was gang raped in her house by the soldiers of Lt. Ahmed Sharif.
  2. Marattua Chakma, 19 yrs, son of Nalindra Chakma, of Tunyachari, P.S. as above, was subjected to inhuman torture for being unable to give information about the Shanti Bahini. Leut. Ahmed Sharif personally interrogated and tortured the victim. The victim fainted three times when Leut. Ahmed Sharif gave electric shocks on his penis and ears during interrogation.
  3. Lalit Kumar Chakma, 55 yrs, son of Dianya Chakma, of Petyachari, P.S. as above, was severely beaten in his house for failing to give them information about the JSS workers who are struggling for the right of self-determination in the CHT.

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Buddhist Holocaust in 1980s Bangladesh
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