A human chain programme at the capital’s Shahbagh intersection this afternoon called for the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord 1997 and demanded dazzling investigation and urged acceptable gallop into the sizzling assaults in Rangamati and Khagrachhari.
The Chittagong Hill Tract Settlement Implementation Circulate’s joint coordinators – human rights activist Zakir Hossain and Dhaka University Professor Khairul Islam Chowdhury – alongside human rights activist Dipayan Khisa, spoke at the programme this day (22 September), which additionally included students, lecturers, and activists below the banner of “Parbotto Chattogram Shanti Chukti Bastobayon Andolon”.
Professor Khairul acknowledged, “If the components within the hills need to no longer solved, the components with Bangladesh’s sovereignty can’t be solved. Bangladesh is no longer going to be safe if the participants within the hills need to no longer safe. Since 1976, the problems interior the hills had been exacerbated and the rights of the participants residing there had been step by step curtailed. With the CHT Peace Accord, we hoped these components will likely be solved. But it no doubt hasn’t as the agreement has no longer been utilized but. Attributable to this truth, we flee [the government] to take effective steps to place in pressure this agreement straight away.”
Here’s the third day that protesters took to Shahbagh rallying towards the sizzling violent clashes which erupted within the hill districts of Khagrachari and Rangamati, leaving four participants unnecessary and over 50 injured.
The incidents, which occurred on 19-20 September, resulted in heightened tensions and heavy legislation enforcement deployment in each and every regions. Amid deteriorating receive 22 situation, native administrations imposed Share 144 within the 2 districts.
In Khagrachari, clashes on 19 September claimed the lives of three participants—Junan Chakma, 20, Dhananjay Chakma, 50, and Rubel, 30. 9 others were injured.
Tensions escalated in Rangamati, a district neighbouring the terrified Khagrachari enviornment, as violent clashes and counter-clashes fill left one person unnecessary and over fifty injured.
Pressing forth an eight-point quiz, the protesters called for forming an honest inquiry rate comprising human rights activists and civil society representatives for the Rangamati, Khagrachari and Dighinala assaults.
Therapy facilities for the injured, and compensation for affected households, overall security within the distance were additionally included.
A range of demands included disciplinary actions and departmental measures towards agencies and occasions which fill failed at their tasks, reconstruction of broken Buddhist monasteries belonging to the Jumma neighborhood, moreover ample compensation for the homeowners of destroyed shops and houses.
The protesters additionally wired implementing the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord to stabilise the most up-to-date receive 22 situation and verify lasting peace within the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
They entreated the govt. to withhold dialogues straight away with the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council.
