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CHT talks postponed, no fresh date set

By Special Correspondent
The meeting between the National Committee on Chittagong Hill Tracts (NCCHT) and the Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS). scheduled for today, has been postponed.
"It has been postponed for sometime, at least until the end of this month, as complications have arisen over a new date, proposed by the PCJSS.” authoritative sources said.
: The PCJSS has proposed November 25 for the meeting, but the government will remains busy then with the scheduled visit of Pakistan Prime Minister Newaz Shaif. the sources said.
The proposal of the PCJSS. made by its supremo Jyotin-driyo Bodhipriyo Larma alias Shantu Larma was communicated to the NCCHT late night Friday by an emissary of Hansadhaia Chakma who maintains liaison between the two sides.
A special emissary of Hansadhaja Chakma arrived in the city yesterday and met NCCHT Convenor Abul Hasnat
Abdullah, Chief Whip of Jatiya Sangsad seeking confirmation of the new date. The emissary also met officials and persons concerned.
He was told that it would not be possible for the NCCHT to sit on November 25 as the government would remain busy with the visit of Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Newaz Sharif, the sources said.
Sharif would be staying back for a two-day bilateral visit after the November 23 three-nation summit.
Shantu Larma and some of his key lieutenants' yesterday postponed their scheduled trip to their temporary headquarters at Dudukchhara. A military helicopter was to fly them to Dhaka today for the meeting.
Earlier, on Tuesday, the authorities demilitarised 25 sq km area in and around Dudukchhara, a tiny frontier hamlet in Khagrachhari district to facilitate arrival of the PCJSS 'high command' from their headquarters in Tripura yesterday morning.
But Hansadhaja Chakma re-
ceived an "urgent message" from Shantu Larma Friday night that he was indisposed' and would not be available for the meeting till November 25.
The dramatic developments took the authorities in Dhaka by surprise. They were all ready for the meeting scheduled at a state guest house in Dhaka which was expected to clinch an agreement to end the decades-oM insurgency in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
According to Information received from the hills, Shantu declined to come to Dudukchhara until he received any communication from the authorities in Dhaka accepting his proposal for the meeting on November 25.
Some of his top 'lieutenants' had already arrived there, waiting for him. They included 'field commander' of the Shan-tibahini. Ushatan Talukder, Rak tout pal Chakma and Ru-payan Dewan.
The sources said the authorities were preparing for an accord with the PCJSS. hoping to iron out differences over certain Issues that were proposed as amendments to the draft of an accord on which the two sides had agreed in their last meeting in Dhaka from September 14 to 17.
These amendments were "imposed" by PCJSS hardliners during its congress in Agartala, capital of Tripura. In early October. to wrest more concessions.
Shantu Larma had told newsmen after the sixth meeting In Dhaka that he accepted the draft agreement.
The proposed amendments Include a regional council for the three hill districts to.oversee the administration, police and land management. They also demanded rehabilitation of the armed cadres of the PCJSS into the security forces', including police.
To exert more pressure. Mrinal Chakma, an adviser of PCJSS who operates under the banner of Humanity Protection Forum in Agartala went public on BBC on November 10.
He made an appeal to the Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral to take up these demands and winding up of a strategic cantonment at Dighi-nala during his Gujral meeting with Bangladesh Frime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the three-nation summit in Dhaka on November 23.