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On 17 April 2011 Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers attacked 5 indigenous Buddhist villages in Ramgarh and 2 indigenous villages in Manikchari in Chittagong Hill Tracts. In this attack around 200 indigenous houses including 2 Buddhist temples were torched. At least 20 indigenous people were injured and at least half dozen indigenous people were missing. Muslim settlers attacked this indigenous Buddhist girl with machete.

Bangladesh army rape and torture indigenous Chakma Buddhists in Dighinala

On 19 April 1986, Bangladesh army from Gagan Para (Dhanpata) camp carried out a military operation against indigenous Chakma Buddhists in the hills of Dighinala, Khagrachari district where they make living by swidden farming. Bangladesh army beat and tortured indigenous Buddhist men and raped indigenous Buddhist women. The victims are:

  1. Sindhu Chandra Chakma (60), of Naraichari, Dighinala. He was severely beaten. Bangladesh army robbed Taka l500.00 (one thousand five hundred) from him . Bangladesh army took him to the camp and detained him.
  2. Ittuki Chakma (19), wife of Gunadhar Chakma of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangladesh army brutally raped her and took her to the camp, kept under army custody and further raped by the army personnels.
  3. Shankha Bala Chakma (16), daughter of Lekkyadhon Chakma of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangladesh army gang raped her, took her to the camp, kept her under army custody where she was further raped.
  4. Murung Choga Chakma of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangaldesh army beat him.
  5. Sindu Poti Chakma of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangaldesh army beat him.
  6. Gandha Chakma, of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangaldesh army beat him.
  7. Brisha Ketu Chakma of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangaldesh army beat him.
  8. Guna Sindhu Chakma of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangaldesh army beat him.
  9. Patul Chandra Chakma, of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangaldesh army beat him.
  10. Sindhu Chandra Chakma, of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangaldesh army beat him.
  11. Badshadhon Chakma, of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangaldesh army beat him.
  12. Jamini Mohan Chakma, of Naraichari, Dighinala. Bangaldesh army beat him.

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