Bangladesh: Peace Under Threat In Chittagong Hills

Bangladesh: Peace Under Threat In Chittagong Hills Indigenous groups are questioning the political will to implement a peace accord signed 13 years ago to resolve land disputes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of southeastern Bangladesh. Over the last few decades, the Jumma, a group of 11 indigenous communities in CHT, have lost land to Bengali settlers brought in by the government to this heavily militarized, restricted zone. In 1977, the Shanti Bahini, the military wing of Parbatya...

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