SOCIETY, CRIMES AND LAW IN CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS The world is full of criminals. Civilized and peace-loving societies make law to prevent criminals from disrupting security and peace of common people in society. So they entrust law-enforcing agencies, like police, with the responsibility for maintaining law and order in society. If law-enforcing agencies fail to carry out their responsibility for their inefficacy, all common people in society become vulnerable to criminals. If law-enforcing agencies are corrupt and ganged up with criminals, all common people in society become vulnerable to criminals. Here both law-enforcing agencies and criminals are criminals. If law-enforcing agencies are efficient but not independent i.e. act under political pressure of the Government or some Government sponsored powerful groups, opposition to that Government become vulnerable to criminals. Here the Government or those groups and criminals are criminals. Like Bangladesh opposition party BNP is vulnerable to criminals, especially ruling Awami League criminals, if any. If law-enforcing agencies are racially or religiously or both biased and prejudiced against a particular group of people in society, people of that group become vulnerable to criminals. And if the Government does not take any appropriate legal and administrative action against those racially or religiously biased and prejudiced law-enforcing agencies or members of law-enforcing agencies, people of that group become absolutely vulnerable to criminals. Criminals commit crimes against the people of that group with impunity. Crimes with impunity increase the morale and courage of criminals. So they commit further crimes against them, and thus they become professional criminals. Here the Government, law-enforcing agencies and criminals are criminals. The Government of Bangladesh, Bangladeshi law-enforcing agencies and criminals (here Bangladeshi settlers in CHT) are criminals — they commit crimes, such as rape, rioting and setting fire on houses, illegal land grabbing and the like, against indigenous people of CHT with complete impunity. They do so because of their racial and religious prejudices and ethnic cleansing policy against the indigenous people. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RAPE IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND RAPE IN CHT (BANGLADESH) In other countries rapist and rape victim can be of any religion and any ethnic background, rapist is brought to book and justice with rape victim is done (general rule -- there may be exceptional cases). In CHT (Bangladesh) rapist is always Bangladeshi settler and rape victim is always indigenous woman. Rapist is never brought to book and justice with rape victim is never done. Here rapist does his job with impunity i.e. here rape is sponsored by state. There is no any example in CHT where indigenous man has raped a non-indigenous woman. RAPE OF INDIGENOUS GIRLS AND WOMEN IN CHT WITH IMPUNITY Series of rape of indigenous girls and women by Bengali Muslim settlers with impunity in CHT raises some fundamental questions: 1. What the Government of Bangladesh/administration is doing to prevent such rape against indigenous girls and women? 2. Why doesnt the Government punish the rapists? 3. Is rape being used as a weapon against the indigenous people to achieve some specific political objective? If yes, is it valid in view of international human rights standard and law? If not, why impunity with the rapists? 4. Does Bangladesh have the right to continue perpetrating crimes, like rape, demographic invasion, land theft and the like against the indigenous people with impunity? We raise our voice against rape and murder of indigenous women in CHT with impunity. EXAMPLES OF RAPE AND MURDER OF INDIGENOUS WITH IMPUNITY: Pic 1: Bharati Chakma (28): raped and murdered by Bangladeshi settlers with impunity on 26 March 2014 Pic 2: Sabita Chakma (30): raped and murdered by Bangladeshi settlers with impunity on 15 February 2014 Pic 3: Sujata Chakma (11): raped and murdered by Bangladeshi settlers with impunity on 09 May 2012 Pic 4: Tumaching Marma: raped and murdered by Bangladeshi settlers with impunity on 21 December 2012 Pic 5: Kalpana Chakma (23): Secretary-General of Hill Women Federation was abducted and raped by a group of Bangladesh military led by Lt. Ferdos on 12 June 1996. Her whereabouts are still unknown! Courtesy: CHT Human Rights Watch
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:54:26 +0000
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