Fifty Jumma people injured and two raped in attacks by settlers
Fifty Jumma people were injured and two Jumma women raped when Bengali settlers attacked two villages in the northern Chittagong Hill Tracts this week.
Fifty Jumma people were injured and two Jumma women raped when Bengali settlers attacked two villages in the northern Chittagong Hill Tracts this week.
The government of Bangladesh sent police to break up a workshop held to discuss land rights issues in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
Eight years after the CHT peace accords were signed between the Bangladesh government and the Jumma tribal peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, hundreds of military and paramilitary camps remain in the region.
Twelve thousand people from the Mru, Bowm and Marma tribes are to be thrown off their land to make way for the expansion of an army base in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.
An 11-month old baby badly injured and his parents killed during an attack by settlers on the Jumma people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.
Several communities of Jummas, the tribal peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh, have been attacked by Bengali settlers.