CHT Peace Accord
Only full implementation can bring lasting peace: PCJSS
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (PCJSS) yesterday said lasting peace in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) could result only from full implementation of the 1997 peace accord.
If it is not implemented fully, more destabilisation and tension would occur in the region, the indigenous leaders told a mass gathering on Rajbari Gymnasium premises in Rangamati town, organised to celebrate PCJSS's 41st founding anniversary.
PCJSS chief Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, known as Santu Larma, said this government spoke of full implementation but they saw "zero result".
He also suspected that the government had a "blue print" to make the hill tracts a Muslim-dominated region. He said "undeclared military rule" was continuing in the CHT.
The Adivasi leader also labelled Dipanker Talukder, state minister for CHT affairs, and Bir Bahadur, chairman of CHT Development Board, betrayers of the jumma people, saying they were playing anti-accord role.
Larma demanded a ban on United People's Democratic Front (UPDF), another Adivasi organisation.
Gonoforum leader Pankaj Bhattacharya said the government must stop Bangalee settlement in the CHT and that "Somo Odhikar Andolan", a platform of Bangalee settlers, backed by army, was disturbing peace and communal harmony in the hills.
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