On 19-20 February 2010; Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers attacked the indigenous people at Baghaichari leaving an indigenous man dead. The aim of the attack was to drive out the indigenous Chakma Buddhists and grab their land. The indigenous Buddhist man gunned down by the Bangladesh army.

Bangladesh army murders an indigenous Chakma Buddhist in Barkal

On 21 Dec. 1988, Bangladesh army of 41 EBR launched a military operation against the indigenous inhabitants of Kukichara in Barkal, Rangamati district. During the operation Bangladesh army shot dead an innocent indigenous person and tortured another. The victims are:

1. Mr. Sneha Kumar Chakma, 32 yrs, son of Mr. Babunya Chakma, of Kukichara, No. 157 Choto Harina Mouza, Barkal. Bangladesh army shot him dead with submachine gun.
2. Mr. Kripa Dhan Chakma, 62 yrs, son of Mr. Jharbuadhan Chakma, address as above. He was inhumanly beaten by the army personnel.

India was partitioned on the basis of religion in 1947. 98.5% of the CHT population was non-Muslim during the partition. The indigenous people of CHT opted to join either India or Burma. But Muslim League conspired with the Boundary Commission and illegally annexed CHT with East Pakistan in violation of the principle of partition. Successive Bangladesh governments have been sponsoring Muslim settlers from plain land to dilute the indigenous people of CHT.

Bangladesh army's role in CHT is to protect the Muslim settlers and carry out massacre, extra-judicial killing, torture, detention withou trial, land grab, rape, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing against indigenous Buddhist, Hindu and Animist people in CHT.

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