On August 10, 2014 Bangladesh army tortured and murdered Timir Baran Chakma (52) in custody in Matiranga, Khagrachari district. Bangladesh army murdered him in Washu Rubber Plantation in Indramuni Para, Matiranga Upazila, Khagrachari Hill District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Bangladesh army fabricated an illegal firearms ownership case against Timir Baran Chakma and tortured him to death. Bangladesh army did not return his body to his family for last religious rite, instead Bangladesh army secretly cremated his body to conceal the murder.

Bangladesh army arrest an indigenous Buddhist leader in Maischari

On 29 July 2015, Bangladesh army arrested Bishwajit Chakma (45) an ex-chairman of Kiang-ghat Union, from Maischari bazaar after secretly planting a rickety gun in his office.

The former chairman has a plot at Maischari bazar which he uses as his office once a week when he comes to the market. It was a market day on Wednesday and he sat at his office as usual. At 10 a. m. a group of army personnel from Bizitola camp entered his office in the name of search and found a rickety gun they had secretly planted earlier.

Bangladesh army also detained another indigenous man named Mera Chakma (32) son of Reboti Chakma of villege East Manikchari, but released him later.

Muslim settlers have been trying to occupy his plot at bazaar for a long time. Only a handful indigenous people have plots at Maischari bazaar and these have become a eye-sore to the Muslim settlers who want to turn Maischari bazaar into a bazaar exclusively owned by the Muslim settlers.

Moreover, Bishwajeet Chakma has always been vocal against land grabbing by illegal Muslim settlers and Bangladesh army in the area. Therefore, the indigenous people believe that his arrest was a part of a deep conspiracy to oust him from Maischari bazaar and to subdue him.

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