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The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is the south eastern
mountainous region of Bangladesh. The CHT has been the
traditional home of the 13 nationalities since the
time immemorial, who collectively identify themselves
as the Jumma people.
Culturally, ethnically and religiously the Jummas are
very different from the mainstream population of
Bangladesh. For the last half of 20th century there
had been massive encroachment of the migrants from the
mainland Bangladesh to the CHT either by the
government's encouragement or by assistance, who naturally
came into conflict with the indigeouns Jummas.
The Jummas reacted to the influx of the settlers by
armed resistance. The Bangladesh government responded
to the resistance by sending hundreds of thousands
of military personnel and settlers to the region.
The aim of the government had been to forcibly
assimiliate the Jumma people into the mainstream
culture and religion of Bangladesh.
Racial and religious hatred motivated the Bangladeshi
military and settlers to perpetrate nastiest
genocide in the CHT.
What is unique about the genocide in the CHT is
the lack of awareness of the nature and extent of it
in the outside world. The aim of this website is to
highlight the plight of the Jummas in their own land
and to identify the root cause of the conflict.
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