Hill Watch Human Rights Forum
NEWS No. 03/2008, January 06, 2008
A group of army personnel led by captain Shohel, commander of Indra Singh Karbaripara camp in Lakshmichari under Khagrachari district, ransacked a Buddhist temple-cum-meditation centre at Bhujulichuk hilltop run by one of Rev. Bana Bhante’s disciples.

Hill Watch Human Rights ForumNEWS No. 04/2008, January 07, 2008
Army personnel from Kiang-ghat camp continue to lay siege to SarnathArannyo Kuthir, a Buddhist temple run by one of Rev. Bana Bhate’sdisciples in Maischari, Khagrachari.

POLICE HAVE REPORTEDLY ARRESTED REV. ARYA JOTI BHIKKHU, THE CHIEFPRIEST OF SARNATH ARANNYO KUTHIR IN KARALLYACHARI UNDER MAHALCHARIUPAZILLA IN KHAGRACHARI DISTRICT.
He was arrested by police personnel from Maischari police barrack afew hours ago from his Kuthir or cottage. No further details areavailable.

Hill Watch Human Rights Forum
NEWS No. 07/2008, January 15, 2008
As part of a broader conspiracy to grab the lands of Sarnath Arannyo Kuthir, a Buddhist religious meditation centre cum temple run by a disciple of Rev. Bana Bhante, a fictitious case has been filed against 500 Jumma men and women including the chief priest of [...]

Hill Watch Human Rights Forum
NEWS No. 08/2008, January 18, 2008, Friday
The Commanding Officer of Baghaihat zone in Rangamati district has ordered Rev. Dwip Bongshaw Bhukkhu, the chief priest of Bishwa Moitri Bouddha Vihar, to leave the temple.

chtnews.com
News No. 05/2008, January 22, 2008
In a dramatic development, the Additional District Magistrate of Khagrachari in a communication yesterday ordered the Thana Nirbahi Officer of Mahalchari to issue show cause on the headmen and Karbaris (Village head) of Karallyachari area as to why they failed to notify the administration before hand about the uplift programme [...]

CHTnews.com
News No. 06/2008, January 23, 2008
The Deputy Commissioner of Khagrachari is holding a meeting with the local Jumma elders of Karallyachari to decide the fate of a Buddhist religious gathering slated to be held on 25 January at Sarnath Arannyo Kuthir in Mahalchari of the district.
The details of the meeting are yet to be known.

chtnews.com
News No. 07/2008, January 23, 2008
The Deputy Commissioner of Khagrachari has decided to allow the organisers to hold the January 25 religious gathering at Sarnath Arannyo Kuthir in Mahalchari of the district.
The decision was made at a meeting between officials of the district administration – both civil and military – and the Jumma organisers. It [...]

chtnews.com
News No. 10/2008, January 26, 2008
Thousands of Buddhist devotees took part in a religious gathering at Karallyachari, 15 kilometers south of Khagrachari district town amid overwhelming military presence and intimidation yesterday, Friday.
The event was held at an open ground at Karallyachari Mukh village, about one kilometer from Sarnath Arannyo Kuthir, a Buddhist temple which has [...]

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Bangladesh:
The Army attacks Buddhism to facilitate illegal settlement in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
On 25 January 2008, indigenous Jumma [...]

HWHRF Review: Issue-04, November 03, 2007
THE ultra communalist elements within the Bangladesh army deployed in Chittagong Hill Tracts have not abandoned the plan to capture Sadhana Tila in Babuchara. After failing to grab the land by brazen display of force and intimidation in August-September 2007, these elements have now changed their strategy. Simultaneously with a [...]

Hill Watch Human Rights Forum
NEWS No. 52/2007, November 07, 2007
On 5 November 2007, Major Qamruzzaman, commander of Babuchara zone, called Sneha Moy Chakma and Santosh Jibon Chakma to his camp and threatened them not to use loudspeaker for public announcement of the Katin Chivor Danotsav, the biggest religious festival in Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The [...]

Hill Watch Human Rights Forum
NEWS No. 37/2007, September11, 2007
A committee comprising both Jummas and settlers has been formed to
help maintain law and order and to decide matters relating to Sadhana
Tila land in Babuchara where troubles arose after the army began a
process of implanting 812 settler families.

Hill Watch Human Rights Forum
NEWS No. 40/2007, September28, 2007
As expansion of illegal Bengali settlement continues in Maischari under Khagrachari district, the Upazilla Nirbahi Officer of Mahalchari, Md. Abdul Matin has issued a public notice prohibiting construction of new religious institutions without prior permission of the authorities concerned.

Bangladesh Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka yesterday called on the Sri Lankan Government to put pressure on the Bangladesh Government to protect Jumma Buddhists and [...]

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A Bangladeshi Jumma Buddhist monk speaks in front of a statue of Buddha during a demonstration in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 12 2007
[COLOMBO, SinhalaNet 2007.09.13 03:31AM] Bangladeshi Jumma Buddhist monks demonstrated outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Colombo yesterday [...]

Hill Watch Human Rights Forum
NEWS No. 24/2007, July 23, 2007
A group of army personnel led by Shuknachari camp commander on 17 July raided “Bhujuli Bhavana Kendra”, a Buddhist meditation centre, situated on remote Bhujulichuk hill-top in Lakshmichari Upazila under Khagrachari district, destroyed the prayer hall and took two Buddhist novices and their attendant to the [...]

Hill Watch Human Rights Forum
NEWS No. 04/2007, April 17, 2007
In a midnight raid, army soldiers from Lakshmichari zone conducted searches in a Buddhist temple in Lakshmichari under Khagrachari district.
On 10 January 2007 a group of about 25 army personnel led by Lakshmichari zone commander raided Arya Mitra Bouddha Vihara in Beltoli Para village. The soldiers [...]