Continued Military Repression and Human Rights Violations in CHT The movement of the Jumma indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts started with a demand for self-determination in 1972. It was democratic in nature, but turned into an armed struggle from the late 1970s when the then authorities of Indigenous activists and their political and human rights organizations attracted the attention of national and international media and human and civil rights organizations in between 1998 and 2007 with their democratic movement pressing the authorities for "proper implementation" of the Accord. They had been active at national and international forums including the UN for this purpose. But since the imposition of the Emergency Rule in the county in January this year by the military no voice is being heard from the CHT. The military-backed Caretaker Government has imprisoned at least 21 indigenous political and human rights activists including the PCJSS General Secretary Satyabir Dewan for their alleged involvement in terrors. The imprisoned and other indigenous activists denied the allegation as totally groundless and alleged that the military were targeting the indigenous leaders by framing false charges against them to make a ground to arrest and jail them, usually for a period of 10-17 years, without proper trial to suppress the movement of the indigenous peoples. They reported that the military filed such false cases against at least 75 indigenous political and human rights activists who are reportedly on hiding to avoid arrest and imprisonment. Bangladeshi military has imposed a regime of terror in the CHT forcing the indigenous leaders to keep totally silent over their (military) activities in the CHT, such as implementation of a silent program: demographic invasion or settlements of millions of ethnic Bengali settlers in the land of indigenous peoples forcibly as part of the Bangladeshi policy of ethnic cleansing in the region. Indigenous activists are now so terrified with the state-sponsored terrors and human rights violations that they do not even have the courage to share their painful experience with international media and human and civil rights organizations. So they have submitted a report on the CHT human rights situation to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN through the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), Thailand, rather than doing so by themselves. The UPR needs to be extremely serious about this report while subjecting |
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