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Rita Chakma
On 19 December 1986, Bangladesh army men gang raped Rita Chakma (13) of Nuaram Karbari Para, Dighinala. About 20 Bangladesh army personnel from the Viswa Ram Karbari Para army camp of Dighinala raided the indigenous Buddhist 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. Bangladesh army stripped all the women and the girls who were in their houses, and gang raped. Even the minors were not spared.

Bengali settlers rape an indigenous Chakma woman in Baghaichari

On 12 June 1995, 10 Muslim settlers attacked the farm house of Mr. Harish Chandra Chakma of Khagrachari village in Baghaichari, Rangamati district. Muslim settlers gang raped his daughter Mrs. Swapna Devi Chakma and stole all his belongings such as cash, ornaments, clothes, utensils, 25 maunds (933 kg) of paddy and so forth in order to force him to leave his home and land. Muslim settlers wanted to grab his home and land.

3 Muslim settlers were identified as-

  1. Mohammad Baliya
  2. Mohammad Nur Alam
  3. Mohammad Rahim

On the following day (13 June 1995) Harish Chandra Chakma complained to the local Thana Nirbahi Officer (TNO) against the known culprits. But the TNO did not take any action against the culprits, confirming that Muslim settlerfs committed the crime with the backing of Bangladesh army.

In 1947, India was partitioned on the basis of religion. In 1947, 98.5% of the CHT population was non-Muslim. 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 is to protect the Muslim settlers and carry out ethnic cleansing against indigenous 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.


Sources:

PCJSS(Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti)

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