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15 adivasis killed in CHT last year

Says Human Rights report

Staff Correspondent
At least 15 indigenous people were killed and 122 indigenous females became victims of sexual and physical assault allegedly by Bangalee settlers and law enforcers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and plains last year, said a report.
Kapaeeng Foundation, an NGO working with indigenous communities, released the report at an event at the capital'sThe Daily Star Centre yesterday.
The yearly study titled "The Human Rights Report 2014 on Indigenous People in Bangladesh" has been prepared based on information from newspaper reports, human rights bodies and indigenous people's platforms.
Seven communal attacks, said the report, were carried out on the indigenous people last year. At least 12 indigenous females and girls were raped during the period. Of them, nine were gang raped.
Besides, some 126 indigenous men were subjected to physical torture and at least 58 houses of indigenous people in the CHT were torched allegedly by Bangalee settlers, added the report.
According to the last population census by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, the country’s indigenous population was 15.86 lakh in 2011.
Speaking at the launch of the study, Pallab Chakma, executive director of Kapaeeng Foundation, said at least 210 indigenous families fled or migrated to India and Myanmar lastyearto escape persecution.
Four Buddhist temples in the CHT and one Hindu temple in the plain were ransacked and defiled, he mentioned.
The government claimed that it has already implemented 48 out of the 72 sections of the CHT accord of 1997, but the fact remains that only 25 sections of the deal have been put into effect so far, added Pallab.
Addressing the programme, eminent rights activist Sultana Kamal expressed concern over the violation of human rights of indigenous people.
"Visiting the Chittagong Hill Tracts, I found that crimes were committed there against the indigenous people. I doubt whether the state would ensure justice for the incidents of human rights abuses," she added.
The people who came under attack from Bangalee settlers for protesting incidents of human rights violations are also not sure of getting justice from the state, said the rights activist.
Lawmaker Hajera Sultana; Sanjeeb Drong, general secretary of Bangladesh Adivasi Forum; Rabindranath Soren and Chaitali Tripura, president and vice-chairperson of Kapaeeng Foundation, spoke, among others.