Forty-5 eminent electorate and rights activists safe issued a press originate in the wake of new clashes in Khagrachhari and Rangamati, anxious investigation and steered factual action against those to blame.
“We are deeply alive to and saddened by these incidents and the casualties. We condemn the violence,” they said in the assertion issued on the brand new time (21 September).
Violent clashes erupted in the hill districts of Khagrachhari and Rangamati, leaving four other folks dull and over 50 injured.
The incidents, which happened on Thursday and Friday, resulted in heightened tensions and heavy law enforcement deployment in each and each regions. Amid deteriorating field, native administrations imposed Section 144 in the 2 districts.
In Khagrachhari, clashes on Thursday evening claimed the lives of three other folks—Junan Chakma, 20, Dhananjay Chakma, 50, and Rubel, 30. Nine others were injured.
Tensions escalated in Rangamati, a district neighbouring the worried Khagrachari field, as violent clashes and counter-clashes safe left one particular person dull and over fifty injured.
Referring to the casualties of the July revolt ultimately of the pupil-led mass protests, the electorate said, “If the similar incident is repeated in the hills and never neatly investigated and prosecuted, this also can very neatly be considered as a disgrace to the ‘new Bangladesh’ completed by the blood and sacrifice of the college students.”
Incidentally, the assertion added, it wants to be neatly-known that such incidents of violence aren’t the main in the hill tracts. “All of us know of many conditions of such clashes, violence and casualties in the previous few a long time, including the brand new previous.
“It is furthermore principal to claim that in the Eighties, many Bangali households settled in the hills from various districts of the plains with make stronger from the-then authorities for political capabilities… On the replacement hand, various Bangalis, who aren’t settlers but everlasting residents of the hilly areas, were residing in tranquil co-existence with the oldsters in the hills for a actually long time.”
The assertion furthermore highlighted that the main struggle is as a consequence of those who settled in the hilly areas and were serious about land encroachment, displacing the ethnic community other folks from their properties for various generations.
“Many things were and will most definitely be reformed via the duration in-between authorities. It is furthermore principal to reform the machine of oppression, torture and absence of justice that has been portion of the lives of the oldsters in the hilly areas for a long time,” reads the assertion.
The electorate demanded a intelligent, honest, transparent, and excessive-stage investigation into the violence in Khagrachhari and Rangamati, to boot to bringing to book those to blame.
Radical alternate in the governance machine and construction of the Chittagong Hill Tracts is principal and the governance construction wants to be restructured as per the Chittagong Hill Tracts Treaty, 1997, the electorate said.
Deployment of the navy in those areas, overall security and protection of human rights were furthermore called for.
The electorate furthermore demanded the constitutional recognition of ethnic groups from the hills and plains be brought up with due significance in the structure discussion.
One of the principal principal principal signatories embrace – Sultana Kamal, human rights activist and aged adviser to the caretaker authorities; Prof Anu Muhammad, Democratic Rights Committee member; Khushi Kabir, ladies folks’s rights inch chief and human rights activist; Rasheda K Chowdhury, aged adviser to caretaker authorities; Dr Iftekharuzzaman, TIB executive director; and Subrata Chowdhury, senior advocate of the Supreme Court docket.
