Harrowing Genocide in
Chittagong Hill Tracts

CHT

Background

News

Bangladeshi
Settlers

Armed
Resistance

Massacres

Genocide

Religious
Persecution

Rapes &
Abductions

Jumma Refugees

CHT Treaty

Foreign Aid

CHT Monitor

Background	Bangladeshi Settlers	Armed Resistance	Massacres
Genocide	Religious Persecution	Rapes & Abductions	Jumma Refugees
	CHT Treaty	Foreign Aid

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.

Harrowing Genocide in Chittagong Hill Tracts

Harrowing Genocide in
Chittagong Hill Tracts