The CHT conflict is an age-old political and armed struggle between the government of Bangladesh and the United People’s Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and its armed wing, the Shanti Bahini, over the issue of autonomy and the rights of the indigenous people known as Jummas. During the conflict, the Bangladesh used rape, torture, arbitrary arrests, mass imprisonment and kidnapping against the Jumma people to combat the insurgency.
“One group of soldiers asked all the young males in the village to gather in a corner. Many of them ran away but I and my nephew were caught. The army first beat us very badly with rifle butts. They stamped our feet under their boots. We were screaming but the army people kept on beating us, asking for the Shanti Bahini’s whereabouts. When we still did not tell them anything, they brought a bucket of chili-water and poured it into our eyes and noses,” Dighinala Upazilla, resident of Pablakhali village, described an incident occurred on December 29, 1986.
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