[hre-asiapacific] ACHR REVIEW: Destruction of a people: Jummas of the CHTs

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please find attached the latest issue of the ACHR REVIEW
titled “Destruction of a people: Jummas of the CHTs ”. It is available on
our website at: http://www.achrweb.org/Review/2005/74-05.htm

Over 7 years have elapsed since the signing of the socalled Chittagong Hill
Tracts Peace Accord between the government of Bangladesh and Jana Samhati
Samiti (JSS) on 2 December 1997. Yet, peace remains the most elusive in the
CHTs ­ the homeland of indigenous Jumma peoples. Instead of implementing
provisions of the socalled Peace Accord, Dhaka has been inexorably moving
towards further destruction of a people ­ indigenous Jumma peoples.

On 31 March 2005, the Deputy Commissioner of Khagrachari served acquisition
notices to the indigenous Jumma landowners in respect of acquiring 45 acres
of land in Babuchara under Dighinala Thana in Khagrachari district for the
purpose of constructing a battalion headquarters’ office of the Bangladesh
Rifles. The government of Bangladesh is also reportedly planning to implant
another 65,000 plain settlers’ families in a vast area between Baghaihat
and Majolong in Sajek Union under Rangamati Hill district.

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Yours sincerely


Suhas Chakma
Director


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