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CHT situation complicated, says Santu Larma
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Parbatya Chattagram Janasanghati Samity chairman Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma addresses a press conference at Sundarban hotel in Dhaka on Friday, marking the 15th anniversary of the CHT Treaty. New Age photo
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti president Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, better known as Santu Larma, on Friday said the situation of CHT is now complicated and volatile due to non-implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord-1997.
Basically, PCJSS think, utter unwillingness of the governments policymakers and communal and anti-ethnicity mentality of the concerned officials are the reasons behind the waste of time for years, he said.
Answering to newsmen at a press conference organised by PCJSS at Hotel Sundarban marking the 15th anniversary of the accord, Santu Larma said that implementation of the deal is still limited to governments assurances.
He said that the Awami League government has passed its four years of second tenure since signing the accord and assured of implementing it in its election manifesto, but there was no tangible progress to implement it.
Santu, however, expected that if government wished, it was still possible to implement most of the accords provisions in the remaining year.
Santu placed 12-point demands and announced to arrange rallies in Dhaka, Chittagong and each upazila and district of the CHT on December 2, the day of signing the deal between the government and PCJSS in 1997, demanding implementation of the accord.
He alleged that instead of empowering the CHT Zila Parishads, they were made hub of corruption and a way to preserve the ruling partys mean interests.
The PCJSS president alleged that the outsiders including the Rohingyas have been intruding into CHT and making habitats there.
He questioned the goodwill of the government whether it was willing to implement the accord as it did not amend the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission Act-2001 even after discussions for four years.
Besides, he said, through the 15th amendment, people of all languages and ethnicities were termed Bangalees which was nothing but trampling their ethnic identities.
Santu criticised keeping Islam as state religion and Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim in the constitution and said it has violated the Supreme Court order and has strengthened religion-based rules.
As the CHT treaty is yet to be implemented in the past 15 years, there is military control everywhere in the hills as it was before the signing of the deal and oppression on hill people continues, he alleged.
He further alleged that the process of eliminating the hill people was continuing through setting fire to and looting their houses, attacking the innocent villagers and killing them, abducting the hill women, raping them and killing them after rape.
The former insurgency leader said that the hill people in different places in CHT faced racial and communal attacks by the outsider settlers and fundamentalists five times with the help of local administration and law enforces in the past four years of the present government.
He termed United Peoples Democratic Front a terrorist organisation that killed more than 300 innocent people, including 86 PCJSS men, and demanded to ban UPDF.
Santu said that the government itself should take initiatives to implement the accord, otherwise, he warned that the existing unrest might further deepen.
Gana Oikya organiser Pankaj Bhattacharya, PCJSS organising secretary Shakti Pada Tripura, Dhaka University teacher Rubayet Ferdaus, Jatiya Adivasi Parishad general secretary Rabindranath Soren and Institute for Environment and Development executive director Numan Ahmed Khan were present at the press conference.
Staff Correspondent
Parbatya Chattagram Janasanghati Samity chairman Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma addresses a press conference at Sundarban hotel in Dhaka on Friday, marking the 15th anniversary of the CHT Treaty. New Age photo
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti president Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, better known as Santu Larma, on Friday said the situation of CHT is now complicated and volatile due to non-implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord-1997.
Basically, PCJSS think, utter unwillingness of the governments policymakers and communal and anti-ethnicity mentality of the concerned officials are the reasons behind the waste of time for years, he said.
Answering to newsmen at a press conference organised by PCJSS at Hotel Sundarban marking the 15th anniversary of the accord, Santu Larma said that implementation of the deal is still limited to governments assurances.
He said that the Awami League government has passed its four years of second tenure since signing the accord and assured of implementing it in its election manifesto, but there was no tangible progress to implement it.
Santu, however, expected that if government wished, it was still possible to implement most of the accords provisions in the remaining year.
Santu placed 12-point demands and announced to arrange rallies in Dhaka, Chittagong and each upazila and district of the CHT on December 2, the day of signing the deal between the government and PCJSS in 1997, demanding implementation of the accord.
He alleged that instead of empowering the CHT Zila Parishads, they were made hub of corruption and a way to preserve the ruling partys mean interests.
The PCJSS president alleged that the outsiders including the Rohingyas have been intruding into CHT and making habitats there.
He questioned the goodwill of the government whether it was willing to implement the accord as it did not amend the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission Act-2001 even after discussions for four years.
Besides, he said, through the 15th amendment, people of all languages and ethnicities were termed Bangalees which was nothing but trampling their ethnic identities.
Santu criticised keeping Islam as state religion and Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim in the constitution and said it has violated the Supreme Court order and has strengthened religion-based rules.
As the CHT treaty is yet to be implemented in the past 15 years, there is military control everywhere in the hills as it was before the signing of the deal and oppression on hill people continues, he alleged.
He further alleged that the process of eliminating the hill people was continuing through setting fire to and looting their houses, attacking the innocent villagers and killing them, abducting the hill women, raping them and killing them after rape.
The former insurgency leader said that the hill people in different places in CHT faced racial and communal attacks by the outsider settlers and fundamentalists five times with the help of local administration and law enforces in the past four years of the present government.
He termed United Peoples Democratic Front a terrorist organisation that killed more than 300 innocent people, including 86 PCJSS men, and demanded to ban UPDF.
Santu said that the government itself should take initiatives to implement the accord, otherwise, he warned that the existing unrest might further deepen.
Gana Oikya organiser Pankaj Bhattacharya, PCJSS organising secretary Shakti Pada Tripura, Dhaka University teacher Rubayet Ferdaus, Jatiya Adivasi Parishad general secretary Rabindranath Soren and Institute for Environment and Development executive director Numan Ahmed Khan were present at the press conference.
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