On the night between 3-4 September 2009 Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers killed Ponemala Tripura (50) wife of Bhibishan Tripura at Sindukchari under Mahalchari. The villagers recovered her dead body from their farm in the morning of 4 September 2009. She had a land dispute with the Muslim settlers.

Bangladesh army harass indigenous people in Rangamati

On 3 July 1994, Bangladesh Army from the Ghagra Military Zone led by Capt. Pasha cordoned off 2 indigenous houses at Naraichari village in Rangamati. Bangladesh army surrounded the indigenous houses at l:30 a.m. Bangladesh army detained and interrogated following indigenous people and their families:

1. Mr. Asha Purna Chakma (48), son of late Ranjan Mohan Chakma
2. Mr. Nigira Muni Chakma (25), son of late Arishya Chakma

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 massacres, land grabs, rapes, religious persecutions and ethnic cleansing against indigenous Buddhist, Hindu and Animist people in CHT.

Bangladesh army restricts access to Chittagong Hill Tracts to foreign media and tourists. According to IWGIA, Bangladesh army and DGFI train and harbour Islamic extremists in CHT to launch terrorist attack against Myanmar and India.

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