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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 arrests and tortures an indigenous Tripura man at Nunchari

On 12 July 2006 at around 2.00 pm a group of Bangladesh army led by Major Bashir Ahmed Choudhury of Bijitola army camp under Mahalchari zone arrested a local shopkeeper named Kali Bandhu Tripura (50) from Thalipara of Nunchari, Khagrachari. Mr. Tripura was severely beaten and electrocuted. Mr. Tripura was against expansion of Muslim settlement in his village.


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