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Victim of Bangladesh Army Torture

On 4 August 2008 a group of Bangladesh army personnel led by Capt. Tanvir demanded few chickens from Buddhist villagers Mr. Tonchongya of Belaichari. When Mr. Tonchongya refused the Muslim soldiers of Bangladesh army blind folded him and tortured him resulting in the fracture of his right leg. Thereafter Tanvir forced the local village chief Anil Chandra Tonchongya and Doctor Priya Dorshi to sign a statement stating that Mr. Tonnyapu Tonchongya got his leg fractured while running away from the army.


Bangladesh army detains and tortures 3 Chakma men at Pukirachara

On 5 May 2008 Bangladesh army under the command of Major Tanvir arrested three Chakma men. Maj. Tanvir arrested Niranjan Chakma after calling him to the camp. Thereafter, the army personnel went to Pukirachara village and arrested Ranangan Chakma(23) from his own house. The following day the army arrested another man named Lamba Chakma when he was going to Pukirachara bazaar. The army severely tortured them and implicated them with false cases after planting homemade guns in their houses.


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