Politicians, academics and professionals on Monday at a discussion on the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord called on the interim government headed by Professor Muhammad Yunus to form a commission to resolve problems in the Chittagong Hill Tracts...
Speakers, including policymakers and government officials, on Monday emphasised the need to resolve land-related issues in the Chittagong Hill Tracts for the effective implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, signed 27 years ago.聽..
The ineffectiveness of the bodies formed under the Chittagong Hill Tracts peace accord has been delaying the full execution of the treaty signed about three decades ago, national minority leaders and rights activists have said.
THE Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, popularly known as the 鈥楶eace Accord,鈥� was signed on December 2, 1997, between the government and the Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti. It has been widely discussed locally and internationally. The accord ended the 20-year-long, violent conflict and set the stage for inclusive, peaceful, and integrated coexistence between Bengalis and indigenous...
ON DECEMBER 2, 1997, the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord marked a historic moment for Bangladesh, promising peace, development, and political autonomy to the region鈥檚 indigenous communities after decades of armed conflict. Yet, as we commemorate 27 years of this milestone, the stark reality is that the vision of the accord remains largely unfulfilled, leaving many of its promises...
The United People鈥檚 Democratic Front, a Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political organisation, on Thursday observed a dawn-to-dusk road blockade in Khagrachari district protesting against Wednesday鈥檚 killing of its three activists and demanding immediate arrest of the killers...
The local administration on Monday urged the monks to reconsider their decision of not observing Kathin Chibardan, a major Buddhist festival, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts this year.
The monks from 15 religious organisations on Sunday announced that this year they would not observe Kathin Chibardan, a major Buddhist ritual festival celebrated in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, in the present situation of insecurity in the three hill districts...
Students for Sovereignty, a student organisation of Dhaka University, on Friday protested at spreading sectarian violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The Parbatya Charrogram Janasamhati Samiti, a regional political party in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, on Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into the incidents of sectarian attacks in Khagrachari and Rangamati in September 18鈥�20...
Citizens including writers, artists, teachers, journalists and rights activists in separate statements on Wednesday demanded fair investigation into recent violence that took place in Rangamati and Khagrachari districts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Tension deepened in the Chittagong Hill Tracts with authorities failing as of Sunday to initiate a meaningful negotiation between the national minorities and Bengalis and take proper legal step to...
The second day of the 72-hour blockade is under way in Bangladesh鈥檚 two hilly districts Khagrachhari and Rangamatil of Chittagong Hill Tracts region.
Fear reigned supreme in the Chittagong Hill Tracts where life came to an abrupt halt on Saturday following two previous days of sectarian violence in Khagrachhari and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma on Friday said that the government will mitigate the crisis of schooling in Chittagong Hill Tracts....
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...
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...
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...
Chittagong Hill Tracts regional council chairman Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, also known as Santu Larma, at a conference in Rangamati on Friday alleged that...
TODAY is the 28th anniversary of the abduction of political activist Kalpana Chakma...
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...
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...
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...
