On 17 April 2011 Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers attacked the indigenous Buddhist people at Ramgarh leaving at least 2 indigenous people dead and scores injured and missing. The aim of the attack was to drive out the indigenous Buddhists and grab their land. The indigenous victims live in open ground after their homes were burnt down by the Muslim settlers.

Bangladesh army torture 2 indigenous Chakma Buddhists in Mohalchari

On 1 Nov. 1986, Bangladesh army of 32 EBR from the army camp at Mohalchari led by Capt. M.A. Helal arrested 2 indigenous Chakma Buddhists in Mohalchari, Khagrachari district. Bangladesh army took 2 indigenous Chakma Buddhists to Mohalchari Army Camp and inhumanly tortured. The victims are:

1. Mr. Lorai Chandra Chakma (32), son of Mr. Manchandra Chakma of Manoranjan Mohajan Para, Naniachar.
2. Mr. Vasant Vaidya Chakma (52) of Kattaltoli, Naniachar.

India was partitioned on the basis of religion in 1947. 98.5% of the CHT population was non-Muslim during the partition. The indigenous people of CHT opted to join either India or Burma. But Muslim League conspired with the Boundary Commission and illegally annexed CHT with East Pakistan in violation of the principle of partition. Successive Bangladesh governments have been sponsoring Muslim settlers from plain land to dilute the indigenous people of CHT.

Bangladesh army's role in CHT is to protect the Muslim settlers and carry out massacre, extra-judicial killing, torture, detention withou trial, land grab, rape, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing against indigenous Buddhist, Hindu and Animist people in CHT.

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