Genocide In Chittagong Hill Tracts. Will The World Sit Up And Take Notice?

Bangladeshi security forces have committed grave human rights abuses in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), murdering, crippling, raping, and torturing indigenous ethnic communities which are culturally, racially, ethnically and linguistically distinct from the majority Bengali population of Bangladesh. The elected representatives of CHT demand regional autonomy to protect their language, culture and religion; their demand perceived as secessionist by Bangladesh. The Bangladesh government has deployed armed forces, whose actions have been described as genocide and ethnic cleansing, in the area of conflict.

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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