Raja Devasish Roy
Raja Devasish Roy is Chakma Raja and Chief, the Chakma Circle, as well as an advocate at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. The author wishes to thank Sushmita S. Preetha, Md Zafar Iqbal and CR Abrar for their illustrative pieces on the land grabbing of areas where the Mro people have lived, on the Chimbuk-Thanchi Highway in Bandarban, to construct a Mariott Hotel-branded tourist resort.
Implementing the CHT Accord for a non-communal Bangladesh
1 December 2022, 18:07 PM
The Adibashis epitomise some of the clearest manifestations of the pluricultural and multilingual heritage of Bangladesh.
1 December 2022, 18:07 PM
23 Years of Signing Cht Peace Accord / A Requiem for the Discordant Accord
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM
I have written on the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord of 1997 numerous times, especially in the early 2000s, right up to the 2010s, and have had articles published in Bangladesh and abroad, including through Cambridge University Press. Perhaps having a premonition of what was in the offing, I had dubbed the agreement “the discordant accord”.
1 December 2020, 18:00 PM