PCP holds rally on DU campus
chtnews.com
News No. 60/2008, April 2, 2008
THE Hill Students Council (PCP), a front organisation of the United People's Democratic Front, has held a rally on Dhaka University campus.
The rally was held today, 2 April, in protest against rising prices of essential commodities and army-orchestrated land grabbing in Chittagong Hill Tracts. It was addressed by Aungyo Marma and Sumen Chakma, president and general secretary of the PCP Dhaka branch respectively.
The PCP leaders denounced the grabbing of Jumma people's lands by illegal settlers and urged the government to return the grabbed lands immediately to the rightful owners. They also urged the government to lift the state of emergency and restore the fundamental rights of the citizens.
Lashing out at the interim government for failing to control the prices of essential commodities, the PCP leaders said the situation has already exceeded the tolerable limits of the people.
Describing the food crisis in the rat-hit areas of CHT including Sajek, the PCP leaders said that two Jummas had died after prolonged starvation while many others were forced to cross the border in search of food and job in Mizoram state of India.
They urged the government to take immediate steps to deal with the famine-like situation in CHT. "Send emergency food relief to the hungry people in the rat-hit areas without further delay" they said.
Prior to the rally, which was held at the foot of Aparajeyo Bangla sculpture, the PCP activists took out a procession on the campus.
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