: Arson attack in Ramgarh

chtnews.com
News No. 75/2011, April 17, 2011

THE settlers have burnt down at least 30 Jumma houses in Uttor
Shonkhola Adam and Reyo Morong Para under Hafchari Union of Ramgarh
Upazila in an attempt to capture 50 acres of land belonging to Marma
community, reports say.

Sources said a group of about 30 settlers from Baro Pilak in Jaliapara
went to Shonkhola [...]

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chtnews.com
News No. 177/2010, December 06, 2010

THE Jumma people in Mahalchari put up road blocks for a few hours on
Khagrachari – Rangamati road in the morning today in protest at land
grab attempts by Bengali settlers in Lemuchari.

Hundreds of Jumma villagers gathered at Lemuchari, Bodanala, Noapara
and Chobbish Mile and stopped vehicles plying on the road.

The road block [...]

chtnews.com
News No. 176/2010, December 06, 2010

BENGALI settlers at rally in Naniachar said they would attack UPDF
rallies in future.

The rally was organised by the so-called Sama Odhikar Andolon, a
military-backed settler outfit, at Upazila ground in Naniachar in
Rangamati district on December 5.

Earlier, UPDF was denied permissions to hold its rally at Upazila
ground under the pretext of security.

The [...]

chtnews.com
News No. 174/2010, December 05, 2010

THREE Jumma organisations staged demonstrations in Panchari in protest
at a government plan to acquire 9,560 acres of land for the purpose of
expansion of Ruma cantonment in Bandarban.

The demonstration was organised by Hill Students Council (PCP), Hill
Women’s Federation and Democratic Youth Forum on 3 December.

At a rally held at Panchari bus [...]

chtnews.com
News No. 113/2010, June 10, 2010

ARMY soldiers have been re-deployed to a camp in Rangamati district,
raising serious doubt about the government’s intention to implement
the Chittagong Hill Tracts accord signed in 1997.

Sources said the government had re-established Gabghona army camp
under Moghban Union in Rangamati Sadar Upazila on 6 June.

The camp was one of the 35 camps [...]

chtnews.com
News No. 111/2010, June 09, 2010

Members of the Bangladesh Army in Baghaihat have seized relief
materials meant for the 19-20 February Sajek attack victims.

In a statement issued to the media convenor of the Sajek Land
Protection Committee, Gyanendu Bikash Chakma and convenor of Sajek
Nari Samaj, Ms Ompika Chakma, condemned the seizure of the relief
goods of the Baptist [...]

chtnews.com
News No. 110/2010, June 08, 2010

One person was injured when the settlers attacked the Jummas
protesting a land grab attempt yesterday in Ramgarh in Khagrachari
district.

Sources said a group of 20 – 25 settlers led by Kashem and Belal from
Thulipara began clearing jungles to occupy approximately 15 acres of
land belonging to the Jummas in the village of [...]

chtnews.com
News No. 108/2010, June 04, 2010

Two members of the United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF) and one
supporter have been arrested in Matiranga in Khagrachari district.

UPDF sources said a group of army personnel from Matiranga camp raided
the house of Chuijai Marma (45) son of Apru Marma in Rubber Plantation
No. 2 in Ballyachari in the small hours today.

14 May 2010
Members of the Rangamati Ananda Vihara Management Committee have been harassed as they went to Sajek to distribute relief materials to the victims of 19 – 20 February attacks by army and settlers on Jumma villages in Sajek under Rangamati district.
 
According to sources, members of the Rangamati Ananda Vihara Management Committee led by [...]

17 May 2010

Photo: Courtesy Daily Star
THE High Court Division on April 13 declared the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Regional Council Act of 1998 unconstitutional and illegal. On the government’s petition the judgement was later stayed for six weeks by the Appellate Division. Now the government has to seek leave to appeal, the granting of which [...]

16 May 2010

- Fruit gardens- destroyed by Forest Department in Alikadam. Photo – courtesy chtonline.
The Forest Department has destroyed fruit gardens on approximately 22 acres of land belonging to Marma and Mro communities in Alikadam in the southern Chittagong Hill Tracts – all in the name of afforestation.
 
A representative of the chtnews.com visited the spot at [...]

16 May 2010

- A vast tobacco field in Dighinala upazila in Khagrachari – Photo: Courtesy Daily Star
Commercial cultivation of tobacco is increasing in the three hill districts despite protests by environmentalists, damaging the environment, reducing soil fertility and occupying more and plain lands earlier used for growing rice and other crops.
Besides, at least 30 to [...]

- A vast tobacco field at Shilchhari at Kaptia in Rangamati. Photo Courtesy Daily Star
Tobacco cultivation is posing a threat to the public health and the environment in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
Although tobacco cultivation is strictly prohibited, the tobacco companies are doing brisk business, violating the rules. Besides, they motivate the farmers openly by offering [...]