Bangladesh: Violence Against Indigenous Jumma Women By Bengali Settlers Continues In CHT

Bangladesh: Violence Against Indigenous Jumma Women By Bengali Settlers Continues In CHT   Violence against indigenous Jumma women, such as, rape, killing and kidnapping etc. are being reported regularly in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The biggest concern in rape and other violence against indigenous women in CHT is the lack of access to justice and absolute impunity that perpetrators enjoy. From January 2007 to February 2012, at least 51 incidents of violence against indigenous women in...

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