Terror in CHT

Home

CHT
Background
Bengali Settlers
Armed Resistance
Massacres
Genocide
Religious Persecution
Rapes & Abductions
Chakma Refugees
CHT Treaty
Foreign Aid
Jyoti Ranjan Chakma, victim of Muslim settler attack at Jaliapara
On 17 April 2011 Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers attacked the indigenous Buddhist people at Ramgarh leaving at least 2 indigenous people dead and scores injured and missing. The aim of the attack was to drive out the indigenous Buddhists and grab their land. At Jaliapara, the Muslim settlers stopped every vehicle and looked for indigenous people. Senior government official Jyoti Ranjan Chakma was taken off a bus and severely beaten up.

Bangladesh army torture indigenous Chakma Buddhists in Naniachar

On 7 Jan 1995, Bangladesh army from Joripyapara and Bogachari camps led by Lt. Salauddin and Lt. Hanif carried out a surprise raid on the indigenous people of Bame Bogachari village in Naniachar, Rangamati district. Bangladesh army tortured and robbed ollowing indigenous Chakma Buddhists-

  1. Mr. Pratul Chakma, son of Mr. Kala Chan Chakma
  2. Mr. Braja Gopal Chakma, son of Mr. Bharatya Chakma
  3. Mr. Hema Ranjan Chakma, son of Mr. Bharatya Chakma
  4. Mr. Amitabh Dewan, son of Mr. Jogendra Dewan
  5. Mr. Nona Ram Chakma, son of Mr. Mutuallya 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 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)
E-mail: pcjss.org@gmail.com, pcjss@hotmail.com
Website: pcjss-cht.org, ipdpcjss.wordpress.com

comments powered by Disqus
Copyright © 2008 Chakma Buddhist Association. All Rights Reserved