On 2 February 1992 Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers killed at least 30 indigenous Chakma Buddhists at Mallya. 2 of them were Bijay Chakma and Samiran Chakma, the sons of Saral Kumar Chakma. Two bombs exploded on a river ferry at Mallya. The explosion killed a passenger and seriously injured the skipper of the ferry. The survivors swam ashore but the armed Muslim settlers were waiting for them and attacked the indigenous Chakma Buddhists - men women and children.

Bangladeshi armed forces massacre indigenous Chakma Buddhists in Dighinala

Soon after independence, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, unleashed a reign of terror in the CHT. In a military campaign to search for 'Rajakars and Albadars' (supporters of Pakistan). Several hundred indigenous people were killed, hundreds of houses were looted and burned, many women were raped, and thousands of indigenous people were indiscriminately arrested and tortured.

In 1972, the Bangladeshi armed forces attacked indigenous villages- Merung, Hazachara and Boalkhali in Dighinala and massacred the indigenous people of the villages.

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