RU Correspondent :
The ethnic minority students of Rajshahi University on Monday formed a human chain at the university campus to press home their three-point demands including constitutional recognition of ethnic people as “Indigenous people”.
The other two-point demands include forming separate land commission for them and implementing the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord fully soon.
The Rajshahi unit Parbatya Chattagram Pahari Chhatra Parishad and RU unit Adibasi Chhatra Parishad jointly organised the human chain at university’s tukitaki chattar where more than hundred ethnic students participated.
Addressing the human chain, the speakers said that though The International Indigenous Day is celebrated on August 9 every year across the world, but the day is not observed in our country officially. They called on the government to celebrate the day officially like all other important days.
“Though 45-years have passed since the independence, the indigenous people still are being deprived from their human and fundamental rights. Most of indigenous people now become labourers losing their ancestral lands”, said Nokul Pahan, president of Adibasi Chhatra Parishad central committee.
He urged to the government to return of the occupied land of the indigenous peoples grabbed by the influential land grabbers and demanded stoppage of eviction of the indigenous peoples from their own land and from the khas land.
The speakers also urged to the government to form a separate Land Commission for the indigenous people to ensure their land right.
Among others, Dipen Chakma, president of Parbatya Chattagram Pahari Chhatra Parishad in Rajshahi, general secretary Dipon Chakma, RU kendrio Sangskritik Jote president Abdul Majid Antor, RU Chhatra Federation president Kingshuk Kinjol, Chhatra Union president Shakil Hossain and Biplobi Chhatra Maitree general secretary spoke at the human chain.
The ethnic minority students of Rajshahi University on Monday formed a human chain at the university campus to press home their three-point demands including constitutional recognition of ethnic people as “Indigenous people”.
The other two-point demands include forming separate land commission for them and implementing the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord fully soon.
The Rajshahi unit Parbatya Chattagram Pahari Chhatra Parishad and RU unit Adibasi Chhatra Parishad jointly organised the human chain at university’s tukitaki chattar where more than hundred ethnic students participated.
Addressing the human chain, the speakers said that though The International Indigenous Day is celebrated on August 9 every year across the world, but the day is not observed in our country officially. They called on the government to celebrate the day officially like all other important days.
“Though 45-years have passed since the independence, the indigenous people still are being deprived from their human and fundamental rights. Most of indigenous people now become labourers losing their ancestral lands”, said Nokul Pahan, president of Adibasi Chhatra Parishad central committee.
He urged to the government to return of the occupied land of the indigenous peoples grabbed by the influential land grabbers and demanded stoppage of eviction of the indigenous peoples from their own land and from the khas land.
The speakers also urged to the government to form a separate Land Commission for the indigenous people to ensure their land right.
Among others, Dipen Chakma, president of Parbatya Chattagram Pahari Chhatra Parishad in Rajshahi, general secretary Dipon Chakma, RU kendrio Sangskritik Jote president Abdul Majid Antor, RU Chhatra Federation president Kingshuk Kinjol, Chhatra Union president Shakil Hossain and Biplobi Chhatra Maitree general secretary spoke at the human chain.