In the last two months of July-August, 22 human rights violations were committed by security forces and law enforcement agencies deployed in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), army-backed armed terrorist groups, communal and fundamentalist groups, Muslim settlers and land grabbers, and 148 Jumma people were subjected to human rights violations in these incidents. In this, …
© Ahimsak Chakma How one indigenous community was erased from India’s Independence map On 15th August 1947, as the Indian subcontinent celebrated independence from British colonial rule, the indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT)—predominantly Chakmas, along with Marmas, Tripuris, and others—raised the Indian tricolour in Rangamati. It was a moment of hope and …
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