On August 3 2013, Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers wielding sharp knives and machetes began to attack indigenous Buddhist and Hindu people in Taindong of Matiranga, claiming that indigenous miscreants had kidnapped a Muslim settler named Kamal Hossain. At least 50 indigenous people were wounded and 3 were killed. More than 1,500 indigenous men, women and children fled to the India-Bangladesh border. Indigenous Chakma and Tripuri refugees in temporary refugee camps set up by BSF (Border Security Force of India) in Indo-Bangladesh border.

Bengali settlers abduct and murder an indigenous man in Naniachar

On 7 Nov. 1991, Muslim settlers led by Jamal, Aziz and Siddigue robbed and destroyed indigenous houses at few villages of Burighat area in Naniachar, Rangamati district.

Muslim settlers also attacked the house of Mr. Aungthuai Marma, son of Mr. Kyazachai Marma of Tongtulya Para in Naniachar and took away all his stocks and valuables including a pair of bullocs during the raid. He and his family managed to take shelter in the nearby forest.

When Muslim settlers left the village, he came back to his ransacked house and later he went to a Muslim settlement to look for his pair of bullocks. He never returned from that Muslim settlement. It is feared that Muslim settlers murdered Mr. Marma.

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