Terror in CHT

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On 3 April 2006, Bangladesh army and Muslim settlers attacked indigenous Buddhist people in Mahalchari of Khagrachari. Indigenous Chakma children took refuge at Balipara Primary School after their villages were burnt down by the Bangladesh army and Muslim settlers.

Bangladesh government builds roads in Rangamati and Khagrachari to bring more Bengali settlers and military personnel

Bangladesh government has recently started to construct the following new roads in the districts of Khagrachari and Rangamati in order to facilitate the movement of the military forces and to open up the interior parts of the CHT to the Muslim settlers:

  1. Naniachar Bazar - Baradam Road to Puli Para - Burighat Bazar Road in Naniachar, Rangamati.
  2. Burighat Bazar - Ramhari Para Road to Mahalchari - Manikchari Road in Naniachar, Rangamati
  3. Kaptai - Rangamati Road via Baradam and Rangapani Mouzas in Rangamati.

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.


Sources:

PCJSS(Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti)
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