On 12 June 1996 Bangladesh Army led by Lt. Ferdous abducted Kalpana Chakma (23), a human rights activist from her home at Lallyaghona village. Kalpana Chakma is still missing. It is believed that she might have been killed if she did not agree to marry Lieutenant Ferdous, the officer who led the abduction. Abduction of indigenous women is not unusual in CHT. Abduction and forced marriage of indigenous women are used as a technique to islamize the indigenous Buddhist people of CHT.

Bangladesh army rape 2 indigenous Buddhist girls in Dighinala

On 7 August 1984 at 12 a.m., Bangladesh army from the Dighinala cantonment came to the house of Miss Minati Bala Chakma (18), daughter Of Mr. Nila Roth Chakma at Pablakhali in Dighinala, Khagrachari district. Bangladesh army asked for drinking water. When she brought water for them they caught her, took her inside the house and raped her.

Same day on 7 August l984, 2 Bangladesh army personnel from the Dighinala cantonment came to the house of Miss Jattara Bala Chakma (15), daughter of Mr. Binanda Baidya Chakma at Shan Khola Para in Dighinala, Khagrachari district. While she was drying paddy in the lawn, they asked her to bring drinking water for them. When she went in to fetch water, they followed her and raped her.

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