Chakma teams protest assaults on minorities in Bangladesh, in Guwahati on Sunday.
AIZAWL: 13 Chakma organisations in Mizoram, together with political events, despatched a memorandum to PM Narendra Modi Sunday, urging his intervention to halt assaults on indigenous ethnic minorities in Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Chakmas share ties of ethnicity and kinship with such teams within the neighbouring nation.
The organisations alleged not less than 9 folks had been killed, many wounded and lots of left homeless following assaults by unlawful settlers backed by military personnel on Sept 19.In response to the memorandum, the assaults got here within the wake of Bangladesh interim govt’s determination to grant magisterial and policing powers to the military.
The assaults had been reportedly a response to a peaceable “March for Identification” held on Sept 18 in CHT, throughout which 40,000 indigenous folks referred to as for constitutional recognition of their rights and full implementation of a 1997 peace accord. The memorandum cited demographic adjustments on account of settlement of 5 lakh unlawful Muslims between 1979 and 1983, which left indigenous inhabitants marginalised. It drew consideration to historic injustices suffered by non-Muslim minorities within the area since Partition.
The organisations alleged not less than 9 folks had been killed, many wounded and lots of left homeless following assaults by unlawful settlers backed by military personnel on Sept 19.In response to the memorandum, the assaults got here within the wake of Bangladesh interim govt’s determination to grant magisterial and policing powers to the military.
The assaults had been reportedly a response to a peaceable “March for Identification” held on Sept 18 in CHT, throughout which 40,000 indigenous folks referred to as for constitutional recognition of their rights and full implementation of a 1997 peace accord. The memorandum cited demographic adjustments on account of settlement of 5 lakh unlawful Muslims between 1979 and 1983, which left indigenous inhabitants marginalised. It drew consideration to historic injustices suffered by non-Muslim minorities within the area since Partition.
