Two KNF suspects detained in Bandarban
Security forces detained two suspected members of ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front during a special drive at Keplongpara area under Ruma upazila in Bandarban district Monday morning...
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Three KNF members killed in gunfight with Army personnel in Bandarban
At least three armed separatist group Kuki-Chin National Front suspects were killed in a reported gunfight with the Bangladesh Army in the forest of Ruma upazila in Bandarban on Sunday.
3 female KNF suspects鈥� bail denied
A senior judicial magistrate court in Bandarban on Wednesday rejected prayers of three Bawm women, arrested in joint drives in April and May this year suspecting them to be members of Kuki-Chin National Front, seeking bail...
3 more KNF members arrested in Bandarban
Three members of the armed separatist group Kuki-Chin National Front were arrested in the ongoing anti-extremist drive by the joint forces from a remote hilly area of...
Blanket arrest, harassment of Bawm people must stop
THE blanket arrest of Bawm people and their harassment in Bandarban as part of a joint security operation for their suspected involvement in the Kuki-Chin National Front, said to be responsible for attacks on banks and security facilities...
Release of Bawm people demanded
Speakers, including academics, on Monday demanded release of detained 鈥榠nnocent鈥� ethnic individuals from the Bawm community in Bandarban and withdrawal of cases against them...
Jama鈥檃tul Ansar supplies arms for KNF鈥檚 training: CTTC
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Friday said that the banned militant outfit Jama鈥檃tul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya supplied arms and ammunition for the training of the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front...
KNF's women wing 鈥榗hief coordinator鈥� held in Bandarban
Rapid Action Battalion on Friday claimed to have arrested a top coordinator of the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front鈥檚 women鈥簊 wing during the ongoing joint operation in Bandarban following the incidents of bank robberies, arms snatching, and abduction...
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...
71-yr-old man detained in KNF case
A 71-year-old national ethnic minority person was arrested for his alleged connection with ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front and bank looting incident in Ruma upazila of Bandarban in early April, the officials said on Monday...
End to mass arrests of Bawm people demanded
A group of ethnic youths on Wednesday demanded stopping mass arrests and harassment of people of Bawm community in Bandarban in the name of joint operation for their alleged involvement with the armed hill group Kuki-Chin National Front.....
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...
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...
2 KNF men killed in army operation
The Inter Services Public Relations said on Sunday that two members of ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front, who were involved in...
Seven more KNF suspects sent to jail
A Bandarban court on Tuesday sent seven people, including Ruma upazila Chhatra League unit president, suspected to be members of the armed hill group Kuki-Chin National Front, to jail in the case, filed over bank robberies, arms snatching, and abduction.....
KNF man killed in Ruma army operation
The Inter Services Public Relations said on Monday that an army operation left one member of the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front killed in the remote Moonlai Para of Ruma upazila in Bandarban...
Army man killed in KNF ambush
At least one army corporal was killed and two others, including a junior commissioned officer, were severely injured in an ambush allegedly carried out by...
52 KNF suspects remanded in police custody
A Bandarban court on Thursday remanded 52 suspected members and sympathisers of the armed national minority group Kuki-Chin National Front in police custody for...
UPDF protests against arresting Tripuras as KNF suspects
United People鈥檚 Democratic Front on Wednesday denounced a statement of the Inter Services Public Relations for branding eight ethnic Tripura youths as members of ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front following...
Govt must be cautious in dealing with Bandarban issues
AW enforcement operation at Ruma in Bandarban after the attacks on banks and security facilities there between April 2 night and April 3 afternoon that Kuki-Chin National Front operatives are believed to have...
Nine more KNF suspects held
Security forces on Tuesday arrested nine more suspected members of the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front during their ongoing joint operation in...
BNP demands govt statement on KNF
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has demanded a government statement over recent bank robberies and attacks on police stations in Bandarban by the...
Ruma people not allowed to buy more than 5kg rice at a time
The residents of Ruma upazila in Bandarban are not allowed to buy more than five kilograms of rice each at a time reportedly in a measure to check stocking of food by the...
Three more sent to jail as joint drive against KNF continues
Three suspected stalwarts of the Kuki-Chin National Front, including a woman, were sent to jail on Thursday as a joint drive against the armed national minority group continued....
KNF adviser sent to jail as joint drive continues
KNF adviser Lal Liyan Siyam Bawm was sent to jail on Wednesday taking to 55 the number of people sent to jail following their arrest in connection with attacks on banks and police installations that saw cash and arms looted in April 2鈥�4...
BNP doubts if KNF issue a govt drama
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday doubted if the Kuki-Chin National Front issue was a drama of the government....
One more arrested in joint drive against KNF, 54 sent to jail
A suspected source of Kuki-Chin National Front was arrested at Thanchi in Bandarban in a joint drive against the armed national minority group on Tuesday while 54 suspected KNF member and supporters, arrested earlier, were sent to jail...
Women among 54 held in drive against KNF
Security forces in a joint operation against the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front and its sympathisers between Sunday night and Monday arrested 54 people, including 18 women in Bandarban...
49 KNF members arrested, several firearms seized in Bandarban
Law enforcement agencies on Monday arrested a total of 49 suspected members of Kuki-Chin National Front, also known as KNF, during drives at several places in Ruma upazila of Bandarban....
KNF chief coordinator arrested
Rapid Action Battalion arrested one of the cousin brothers of ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front chief, Nathan Bawm, in an overnight raid to his house in Sualok union of the hilly district of Bandarban on Saturday...