Jummas boycott meeting called by army in Ruma in CHT, Bangladesh

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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 [...]

29 March 2010
A Jumma woman has been killed in Kaokhali in Rangamati district allegedly over a land dispute with Bengali settlers.
 
The dead body of the victim, Dhurungya Chakma alias Chotoma (33) of Talukder Para village, has been recovered from a nearby jungle before dusk.

19  March 2010

Settlers constructed houses in Pablakhali
Very recently Bengali settlers in the name of Bangladesh Muktijuddha Punarbasan Society (Bangladesh Freedom Fighters Rehabilitation Society) constructed around five hundred makeshifts on the recorded lands of Jumma people near Bhangamura army sub-zone camp at Pablakhali area under Khedarmara union and Amtali union of Baghaichari upazila in Rangamati.

17 March 2010
The United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) in a statement today urged the government to enact legislations recognising the traditional land rights of the Jumma people and settle all land disputes in CHT on the basis of that law.”

17 March 2010
Following the recent communal attack on Jumma villagers in Baghaihat and Khagrachari by Bengali settlers with the support of military forces, government of Bangladesh resumed initiative to conduct land survey in Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bandarban hill district of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
As part of this initiative, Land Ministry called an inter-ministerial meeting at [...]

14 March 2010

Courtesy: Daily Star
By Ashok Kumar Chakma
IN the wake of the violent conflicts in Khagrachari and Baghaihat, Rezaul Karim, the minister for land, expressed his view that there was no alternative to land survey for resolving land disputes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. In the same vein, after the first meeting held in August [...]

24 February 2010
Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR)
[ACHR has Special Consultative Status with the UN ECOSOC]
ACHR’s report: Bangladesh- IPs Massacred For Land Grab
On 19 – 20 February 2010, the Bangladesh army personnel and illegal Bengali settlers under the overall command of Lt Col. Wasim, Commander of the Baghihat zone Army Camp, Launched major communal attacks [...]

CHT Commission Letter to Sheikh Hasina – Download Original letter in PDF
CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS COMMISSION
Co-Chairpersons: Sultana Kamal, Lord Eric Avebury, Ida Nicolaisen
Members: Shapan Adnan, Lars-Anders Baer, Victoria Tauli Corpuz, Sara
Hossain, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Lee Swepston, Robert Evans, Hideaki Uemura
22 February 2010
To
Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh
Prime Minister’s Office
Tejgaon, Dhaka
Subject: Urgent [...]

27 January 2010

Dighinala – Sajek road blockade by Indigenous Jumma women near Hajachara area. Photo by Soikat Dewan
“Since 17 January 2010 Bengali settlers with the support of Baghaihat army zone resumed expansion of their settlement in Sajek area under Baghaichari upazila in Rangamati district”. — PCJSS
“Dozens of Jumma villagers have been tortured and their houses [...]

Eight people of Ratkaba village under Sajek union at Baghaichhari upazila were injured when security personnel allegedly beat them up at Shaheed Ladumoni Chakma Bazar on Thursday following a dispute over land.
The people who were injured include Gayanamoy Karbari, Gayanandu Chakma, Bindu Chakma, Shanti Bimal Chakma, Anadi Ranjan Chakma and Lojo Mukhi Chakma.
Locals said the [...]

2 3 January 2010
It is learnt that on 21 January 2010 two Jumma youths were caught by army of Baghaihat zone from nearby place of outpost of the zone closed to Baghaihat bazaar.
The youths were preventing Jumma villagers from selling their product as Baghaihat bazaar was being boycotted in protest of expansion of Bengali settlement [...]

Dozens of Jumma villagers have been tortured and their houses looted in Sajek of Rangamati district.
Reports reaching from the area said at around 12:25PM yesterday a group of army personnel from Baghaihat zone picked up two Jummas from Baghaihat bazaar for their support for the ongoing bazaar boycott programme. (The Sajek Jummas have been boycotting [...]

21 January 2010
Since 17 January 2010 Bengali settlers with the support of Baghaihat army zone resumed expansion of their settlement in Sajek area under Baghaichari upazila in Rangamati district.
It is learnt that Bengali settlers started to construct the house at Gangaram Duar area under Sajek union since 17 January 2010. A number of houses have already [...]

11 January 2010
Hundreds of people formed a human chain today in Bandarban town to protest against continuing land grabbing in the district.
Organised by Citizens Committee of Bandarban and held in front of Bandarban Press Club at 10:30 AM, the human chain stretched from Sonali Bank to DC Office. An estimated over five hundred Jumma people, [...]

11 January 2010
Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury yesterday said land disputes are the main problem in Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) area and the problem will be solved through discussions with the indigenous people.
The CHT Land Commission is working to solve the problem. A land survey is needed and it is the important [...]

10 January 2010
There are allegations that supporters of Bangladesh Jamayat-e Islami have been making attempts to occupy the village of Jote-ram Tripura Para in Bandarban Sadar Upazila, reports Prothom Alo, a national Bengali daily newspaper.

There have been allegations of encroachment of Jumma people’s land in Rezu Mouza under Nakyangchari Upazila in the southern CHT district of Bandarban.
According to a report published today in the Chattagram Manch, a daily newspaper in Chittagong, the land encroached upon by Rahmat Ali, Ziaur Rahman, Zafar Alam and others belongs to late Thinka Aung [...]