On 4 December 2007 Bangladesh army backed Muslim settler raped indiegnous Buddhist girl Miss Ruikrashu Marma (10) when she was going to school in Ramgarh of Khagrachari district. Indigenous women and girls in CHT are in constant threat of rape.

Bengalis settlers rape and murder an indigenous Buddhist woman in Rangamati

On 20 August 2014, dead body of an Indigenous woman named Bishakha Chakma was found in Kaptai Lake adjacent to a government tourist motel in Rangamati Sadar. Indigenous people suspect that Muslim settlers raped and killed Bishakha Chakma.

On 20 August locals got stench of a corpse from the lake water at Dewanpara adjacent to a government tourist motel named Parjatan Holiday Complex. After hours of searching, they found a corpse floating on the lake. Then they informed the police. Later, a group of police from Kotwali police station led by Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sohel Imtiaz reached the spot and rescued the corpse.

After the corpse was rescued, local people and relatives identified the dead body of Bishakha Chakma alias Bideshi, 30, daughter of Sushil Chakma, also mother of a young child. She was an inhabitant of Dewan Para in Rangamati town. Deceased used to work as a salesperson for a local textile store named ‘Tantuj Textile’ in Rangamati town. Bishakha’s father Sushil Chakma and brother Intu Chakma informed that Bishakha disappeared on 14 August at midnight and remained missing up until her dead body was recovered.

Sohel Imtiaz, OC of Kotwali police station said, miscreants killed Bishakha Chakma in a planned way and then thrown her dead body into the lake using plastic sacks with stones so that it doesn’t float on water. She might have been raped before she was killed.

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