On 17 April 2011 Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers attacked 5 indigenous Buddhist villages in Ramgarh and 2 indigenous villages in Manikchari in Chittagong Hill Tracts. In this attack around 200 indigenous houses including 2 Buddhist temples were torched. At least 20 indigenous people were injured and at least half dozen indigenous people were missing. Indigenous people assessing the damage after Muslim settlers burnt their houses to ashes.

Bangladesh army rob 2 indigenous houses in Lakshmichari

On 29 August 1994, Bangladesh army personnel from Tindukchari Army Camp under Lakshmichari Military Zone raided the houses of 2 indigenous people at Durchari village in Lakshmichari, Khagrachari. Bangladesh army robbed valuable goods like money, jewelery, livestock and rice from 2 indigenous houses. The indigenous victims are:

1. Mr. Bijoy Ranjan Chakma (45), son of Mr. Debendra Chakma
2. Mr. Marattua Chakma (35), son of Mr. Pattya Ram Chakma. Bangladesh army stole valuable goods including 13 roosters, 5 hens, 4 kg of rice and 1 umbrella.

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, land grab, rape, religious persecution 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.

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