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 and murder an indigenous Buddhist girl in Longadu

On 8 Oct l994, Bangladesh army of Bamer Longadu Army camp gang raped an indigenous Buddhist girl Miss Bhanu Mati Chakma, daughter of Mr. Adeidhan Chakma of Bamer Longadu village in Longadu, Rangamati. Bangladesh army raped Miss Bhanu Mati Chakma at the bathing ghat (pier) of the army camp and then brutally killed her by stabbing.

On the following day, while her body was going to be cremated the camp Commander Subedar Jahangir came to the cremation ground with an army doctor to identify the cause of death. After examining the body, the doctor remarked that she might have been killed by wild animals.

The indigenous Buddhist people rejected his fabricated and motivated statement. Then, Jahangir forced them to sign at gunpoint a sworn statement that the girl was killed by wild animals.

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 and Muslim settlers use rape as a tool to terrorize the indigenous people of Chittagong Hill Tracts. Bangladesh army is involved in rape, murder, torture and land grabbing in Chittagong Hill Tracts. Bangladesh army is driving out indigenous people from Chittagong Hill Tracts and settling Muslim settlers in their villages. Their aim is to Islamize Chittagong Hill Tracts by rape and terror.

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