CHT in Turmoil, Article 144 imposed 4 July 2014, Chittagong Hill Tract--Allegedly encouraged by a vested section of the Government of Bangladesh and its army, two jihadist organizations -- Parbatya Bangali Parishad and Sama Adhikar Andolan -- and their front organizations have called a two-day strike and road blockade in the entire Chittagong Hill Tracts on July 4 and 5, 2014 to oppose the visit of the International Commission on Chittagong Hill Tracts, popularly CHT Commission, to the region. The Commission is on a visit to CHT from July 2 to 8, 2014. It will, among other works on agenda, discuss the CHT situation with local political leaders and officials and visit Babuchara (the place where Border Guard Bangladesh and Bangladeshi Muslim settlers attacked indigenous people opposing the planned establishment of a BGB regional HQ and land acquisition for it there last month) and Todekmara Kizing (the place where BGB forced minority Buddhist devotees to stop their planned construction of a 10 feet high Buddha statue last May this year). Defying the strike and road blockade housands of indigenous people gathered at various places of CHT and formed human chains to demonstrate their discontent with the Bangladesh Government over the non-implementation of the 1997 CHT Acoord and continued human rights violations by Bangladeshi security forces and settlers in the region on the occasion of the Commissions visit. The administration invoked article 144 Khagrachari Hill District to disarray indigenous demonstrators. Parbatya Bangali Parishad and Sama Adhikar Andolan are two CHT-based jihadi organizations of Bangladeshi Muslim settlers who are responsible for several genocides and hundreds of abduction and rape cases and all other terrorist activities against the minority Buddhists, Hindus and Christians in CHT.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 03:32:13 +0000