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The vanishing

Shaher Zaidi
JUNE 12, 1996. I want my daughter back. This many years later, I still wonder why Kalpana's widowed mother opened the door. Guns and search-lights on the other side. How did she think this would end?
Pehaps Badhuni Chakma didnt have time for calculations. She got out of bed. opened the door, fear made her body rigid. Perhaps she had expected this her whole life. Born Jumma (Pahari), born Chakma.
Frantz Fanon wrote about the wretched of the earth and set a generation's mind on fire. He failed to see that the same wretched could also replicate that model of domination on others. What would Fanon say now?
The rest of that night I remember from news reports of that time. Hill Women’s Federation leader, Feminist and campaigner for
Jumma people's rights, Kalpana Chakma. dragged out of her room. Amnesty International's alert the next day said: "Kalpana Chakma and two of her brothers were forcibly taken from their home, blindfolded and with their hands tied." In the subsequent investigation by Ain O Salish Kendra, it was found that Khudiram and Kalindi Chakma managed to escape when their abductors fired at them. But Kalpana Chakma was the real target. The kidnappers did not let her escape. After that night, she was never found.
Perhaps to the end of days, Kalindi Chakma will be haunted by those moments as he ran:
They shot at me and when I ran I could hear Kalpana screaming out Dah Dah Mare Baja (Brother, Brother, save me!)."
Dah Dah Mare Baja.
Kalpana Chakma's disappearance ignited anger over three decades of marginalization in
Chittagong Hill Tracts. Jumma activists called a general strike in the hills. Protests spread to Dhaka, and Bengali civil society joined in. Hunger strikes were held in front of the press club. There were calls to discuss the matter in Parliament.
In a tragic postscript, Bengali settlers attacked these protesters and shot dead 16-year old Rupon Chakma. As tensions grew, assailants also hacked to death Sukesh Chakma, Monotosh Chakma and Samar Chakma on their way to Baghaichari bazaar to join the rallies. Tensions reached boiling point.
The rest of the story is the familiar tragedy script. There was an extensive cover up, wiping out traces of the abductors. There were strange rumors planted in the press. That it was a "love affair ". That she was in India. The next year the Peace Accord was signed between the Shanti Bahini and the Bangladesh government.