Attack on Adivasis in Rangamati
Punish perpetrators
Demands Canada based rights org
The International Council of Indigenous Peoples of Chittagong Hill Tracts (ICIPCHT) demanded withdrawal of Bangalee settlers from CHT and exemplary punishment of persons responsible for recent attacks on indigenous people in Rangamati.
The organisation also demanded that the government ensures appropriate compensation for the victims, and full implementation of the 1997 CHT Peace Accord.
The Canada-based organisation made the demands to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through a letter on October 2.
According to the letter, Bangalee settlers have attacked indigenous people indiscriminately, and vandalized, set fire to shops, houses and clinics owned by the indigenous people.
At least 40 indigenous students, a government physician, 12 chairpersons of union parishads and two teachers of Rangamati College have sustained injuries in a series of attacks that began on September 22, it said.
“We are worried that this communal attack on the Paharis will not be the last for the reason that the government of Bangladesh has not addressed the structural roots of violence in the CHT,” the ICIPCHT said in the letter.
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