Attack on Indigenous Peoples in CHT: 4 killed, several injured
Photo: Collected It is alleged that, Bengali settlers carried out communal attack on the indigenous peoples in Khagrachari and Rangamati District on 19 and 20 September 2024 respectively. In these two different attacks 1 person was killed, 54 injured and 19 were admitted at Rangamati General Hospital[1] in Rangamati District on 20 September 2024 while
Barbaric attack on indigenous Munda people at Shyamnagar Upazilla, 12 injured and 1 dead
On 19 August 2022 at around 8 am a group of 200 goons led by land grabbers Rashedul Islam and Ebadul Sardar carried out a heinous attack on the indigenous Munda people of Dhumghat Antikhali village under Shyamnagar Upazilla of Sathkhira District. The land grabbers intentionally perpetrated the attack in order to grab the land
Three betel leaf jum of Khasi people have been occupied in Baralekha
Miscreants cut down a thousand betel trees in Baralekha; Khasi people broke down in tears On 28th May 2021, it has been alleged that outsiders have occupied three betel leaf jum of Khasi people in Banakhola punji of south Shahbazpur union of Moulvibazar’s Baralekha upazila. Two written complaints have been lodged with the Baralekha police
Sudden Outbreak of Measles in Sajek and Lama: 8 Dead & 300 Infected
Very recently, sudden wide-scale outbreak of measles in the Sajek Union of Baghaichari Upazilla under Rangamati Hill District and Lama Union of Lama Upazilla under Bandarban Hill District has become a great concern. The natural calamity that began a month ago has infected at least 300 children and claimed heart-deploring death of 8 lives including
Tripura school girl allegedly killed after rape in Khagrachari
Tripura school girl allegedly killed after rape in Khagrachari The incident on 28 July: On 28 July 2018, a minor indigenous Tripura girl (10) was brutally killed after rape at Noimile area under Dighinala upazila in Khagrachari Hill District. Police recovered the dead body of the victim from Noimile area around 11 pm on Saturday 28 July.
5 hundred indigenous families migrate to Arakan due to insecurity in Bangladesh and alluring policy of Myanmar
It came to knowledge that more than five hundred indigenous families from remote rural localities of Alikadam, Thanchi, Naikhyongchari, Lama upazilas (sub-districts) of Bandarban Hill District had already migrated to Arakan (Rakhine State) of Myanmar during the last 4 to 5 years under sheer pressure of lacking security to life and property, deprivation of potential
Land grabbing dropped Rakhaine population to 5 percent in Coastal region in Bangladesh
reveals fact-finding mission of eminent citizen The population of the Rakhaine people of two southern coastal districts – Patuakhali and Borguna – have gone down to as low as five percent over past few decades as a result of rampant land grabbing and persecution. This deplorable picture was revealed in a press conference organized on
