Nahid denies claims of internet shutdown in Chittagong Hill Tracts
Posts, telecommunication and information technology adviser Md Nahid Islam on Saturday said internet was not shut down by the government in the Chittagong Hill Tracts...
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Govt needs to address grievances of ethnic minorities
THE reluctance of successive governments at fully implementing the Chittagong Hill Tracts peace accord has remained a distressing issue for ethnic minorities living in the hill districts. It has been almost 27 years since the peace treaty Accord was signed. A large number of ethnic minority people once again demanded the full implementation of the accord, signed...
鈥楳arch for Identity鈥� demands full implementation of CHT accord
People from national minority groups on Wednesday in Khagrachari participated in the 鈥楳arch for Identity鈥�, demanding the full implementation of the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord and constitutional recognition of their identities...
Welcome reforms move, but more is expected
THE chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus has announced the formation of six commissions, headed by eminent citizens, to effect national reforms to make people鈥檚 aspirations come true, prevent the recurrence of fascism or autocratic rule and introduce a state system based on people鈥檚 ownership, oriented towards welfare and...
Justice must for victims of sexual violence in CHT
AMID the flash flood and imminent landslide risk, reported incidents of rape and rape attempts are an added concern for the national minorities living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. A rape and two cases of rape attempts were filed in the three hill districts in August 22鈥�23. A group of Bengali men on August 22 dragged an elderly woman and her daughter out of...
Implementation of CHT accord, national minorities鈥� rights demanded
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord Implementation Movement on Saturday called on the interim government to take urgent action for full implementation of the CHT accord signed in 1997....
Students demonstrate against removal of graffiti in Rangamati, Khagrachari
The national minority students of the Chittagong Hill Tracts on Friday held different rallies in Rangamati and Khagrachari to protest at removing of graffiti at various places...
Govt to resolve schooling problem in CHT: adviser Supradip
Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma on Friday said that the government will mitigate the crisis of schooling in Chittagong Hill Tracts....
Appointment of Supradip Chakma as adviser opposed
A group of national minority people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts on Friday protested at the appointment of the CHT Development Board chairman Supradip Chakma as adviser to the newly formed interim government...
鈥楥onspiracy鈥� to abolish CHT regulation decried
Circle leaders of Chakma, Bomang and Mong on Tuesday led rallies protesting at what they alleged conspiracy to abolish the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regulation 1900 considered essential to protect customary rights of national minority communities in the region...
Inequitable access to health care in CHT a persistent concern
NEARLY three decades after the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord in 1997, the healthcare system in the region still remains underdeveloped, particularly in the remote areas. In the past few weeks, in three remote villages of Baghaichari upazila in Rangamati, people with symptoms of diarrhoea and fever have been suffering with...
Conspiracy on to abolish CHT regulation: Santu Larma
Chittagong Hill Tracts regional council chairman Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, also known as Santu Larma, at a conference in Rangamati on Friday alleged that...
Why shouldn鈥檛 CHT cry out for justice?
TODAY is the 28th anniversary of the abduction of political activist Kalpana Chakma...
Cancellation of trial dismissal demanded
The Hill Women鈥檚 Federation and Parbatya Chattogram Nari Sangha held a protest rally in Khagrachari on Friday, demanding that the order, issued by a Rangamati court on April 23 dismissing the trial over the disappearance of Chittagong Hill Tracts-based rights activist Kalpana Chakma, be cancelled...
Boro Porong: manmade catastrophe
SAMARI Chakma has chronicled the devastating impact of the Kaptai hydroelectric dam on the indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the early 1960s. A commendable work of unveiling a phase of murky history 鈥� seemingly lost to the collective amnesia of the...
NHRC asks home ministry to investigate reports of abuses during anti-KNF drives
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the home ministry to initiate an inquiry into the allegations of human rights abuses taken place during the joint force鈥檚 drives against ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front in the Chittagong Hill Tracts...
43 citizens for halting collective punishment of Bawm
Forty-three academics, political and socio-cultural activists, and lawyers on Tuesday called on the government to launch an independent inquiry into the allegation of rights abuse and excesses with ordinary hill people during...
Protesters condemn dismissal of case
The Hill Women鈥檚 Federation and Parbatya Chattogram Nari Sangha held a mass rally in Rangamati on Monday, protesting at the dismissal of the disappearance case of Chittagong Hill Tracts-based rights activist Kalpana Chakma by a Rangamati court on April 23...
Rights group demands probe into harassment
Human Rights Forum Bangladesh members on Monday called on the government to launch independent inquiry into the allegation of harassing ordinary people during the joint force鈥檚 drives against ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front in Chittagong Hill Tracts...
Commission condemns dismissing Kalpana Chakma case
The Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission in a statement on Sunday expressed disappointment at clearing of all suspects in a case filed over the...
Kalpana Chakma abduction case dismissed
A Rangamati court on Tuesday accepted the final report submitted by the police clearing all suspects in a case filed over the disappearance of...
Stop collective punishment of Bawms: CHT Commission
The International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission on Tuesday in a statement called upon the Bangladesh security forces to cease collective punishment of Bawm civilians in the...