Staff Reporter :
The human rights situation in the country has reached an alarming stage for the tribal people.
Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, also known as Santu Larma, Chairman of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity said on Saturday at a press conference in Dhaka. Bangladesh Indigenous People’s Forum arranged the programme marking
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Communal attacks on tribal people, illegal grabbing of their lands and their eviction, rape of tribal women, killing, abduction and other violent incidents have increased in the country’s different regions, he claimed.
“Especially, violence against their women has increased alarmingly in recent time,” he added.
Santu Larma, also the president of the forum, said, although 21 years have passed since the signing of the CHT Accord, its core clauses are yet to be implemented.
“CHT Accord’s implementation process is not only at a slow-pace, it largely remains stagnant and hill people are forced to live a miserable life amid uncertainty and insecurity,” he said, reading out a written statement.
Santu Larma demanded that the government announce a time-bound action plan or roadmap to properly implement the accord.
He said the situation of tribal people of the plain regions is more miserable.
Although the government has promised time and again to form a separate land commission for them, it has not been implemented yet, said Santu Larma.
Responding to a query, he said in the CHT Accord they had to use the word ‘tribal’ because the government was not prepared to accept their ethnic identity.
Marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, this year the forum will arrange discussions, rallies, seminars and cultural programmes throughout August in Dhaka.
Its main programme will be held on the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the capital tomorrow (August 5) instead of August 9, said the forum’s General Secretary Sanjeeb Drong. The decision was taken thinking about countrymen’s preparation for the Eid-ul-Azha, he said.
The human rights situation in the country has reached an alarming stage for the tribal people.
Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, also known as Santu Larma, Chairman of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity said on Saturday at a press conference in Dhaka. Bangladesh Indigenous People’s Forum arranged the programme marking
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Communal attacks on tribal people, illegal grabbing of their lands and their eviction, rape of tribal women, killing, abduction and other violent incidents have increased in the country’s different regions, he claimed.
“Especially, violence against their women has increased alarmingly in recent time,” he added.
Santu Larma, also the president of the forum, said, although 21 years have passed since the signing of the CHT Accord, its core clauses are yet to be implemented.
“CHT Accord’s implementation process is not only at a slow-pace, it largely remains stagnant and hill people are forced to live a miserable life amid uncertainty and insecurity,” he said, reading out a written statement.
Santu Larma demanded that the government announce a time-bound action plan or roadmap to properly implement the accord.
He said the situation of tribal people of the plain regions is more miserable.
Although the government has promised time and again to form a separate land commission for them, it has not been implemented yet, said Santu Larma.
Responding to a query, he said in the CHT Accord they had to use the word ‘tribal’ because the government was not prepared to accept their ethnic identity.
Marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, this year the forum will arrange discussions, rallies, seminars and cultural programmes throughout August in Dhaka.
Its main programme will be held on the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the capital tomorrow (August 5) instead of August 9, said the forum’s General Secretary Sanjeeb Drong. The decision was taken thinking about countrymen’s preparation for the Eid-ul-Azha, he said.
