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. Muslim settlers damaged and desecrated the Buddha images.

Bangladesh army arrest an indigenous Buddhist in Naniachar

On l0 Oct 1994, Bangladesh army from the Bakchari Army camp under the Naniachar Military Zone arrested Mr. Eko Chakma at Jaganatali in Naniachar. Bangladesh army accused him of being a Shanti Bahini tax collector.

Bangladesh army took him to the Bakchari Army camp although he was an innocent civilian wearing plain clothes and having no arms whatsoever. Bangladesh army interrogated, harassed and tortured him for 2 days. Bangladesh army could not prove him to be a Shanti Bahini tax collector and released him on 12 Oct l994.

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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