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The Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict was a political and armed conflict between the government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti United People's Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and its armed wing, the Shanti Bahiniover the issue of autonomy and the land rights of Jumma peoplemainly for Chakma people and the other indigenous of Chittagong Hill Tracts. Shanti Bahini launched an Insurgency against government forces inwhen go here country was under military ruleand the conflict continued for twenty years until the government and the PCJSS signed the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in The actions then carried out by the Armed Forces and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti groups resulted in casualties on both sides.

Amnesty estimate that there are currently only internally displaced Jumma families.

The origin of the conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts dates back to the British rule. The Britishat the end of the 19th century, reorganized the CHT. This resulted in the recognition of three tribal chiefs rajas inb enactment of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Frontier Police Regulations inauthorizing a police force from among the hill peoples, and c enactment of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regulations ingiving them rights and autonomy. When Bangladesh was the eastern wing of Pakistanwidespread resentment occurred The Conflict Of Bangladesh And India the displacement of as many asof the native peoples due to the construction of the Kaptai Dam in The displaced did not receive compensation from the government and many thousands fled to India. After the creation of Bangladesh inrepresentatives of the Chittagong Hill Tracts who was the Chakma politician Manabendra Narayan Larma sought autonomy and recognition of the rights of the peoples of the region.

Larma and other Hill Tracts representatives protested the draft of the Constitution of Bangladesh. It did not recognise the ethnic identity and culture of the non- Bengali peoples of Bangladesh.

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The government policy recognised only the Bengali culture and the Bengali languageand designated all citizens of Bangladesh as Bengalis. In talks with a Chittagong Hill Tracts delegation led by Babgladesh Narayan Larma, the country's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman expressed that the ethnic groups of the Hill Tracts as citizen of Bangladesh should have the Bengali identity which later was proven to be a false allegation.

The migrated hill Jummas were given with special treatment, as they Conflicr the minority after independence in The crisis aggravated during the emergency rule of Sheikh Mujibwho had banned all political parties other than his BAKSAL and the successive military regimes that followed after his assassination in Inthe Shanti Bahini launched their first attack on a Bangladesh Army convoy. The Shanti Bahini divided its area of operations into zones and raised forces from the native people, who were formally trained. The Shanti Bahini led attacks on Bengali Police and Soldiers, government offices, personnel and the other Bengalis in the region. The group also attacked any native believed to source opposing it and supporting the government.

On September 8,he led a member team of Bangladesh Army soldiers and attacked a terrorist Shanti The Conflict Of Bangladesh And India camp.

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Lieutenant Rahman was injured during the clash and died on that day at am. He was posthumously awarded with the Bir Uttom award. On 11 September the Chakma Shanti Bahini rebels reportedly abducted and killed 28 to 30 Bengali woodcutters. Peoples living in the Hill Tracts area were often detained and tortured in the custody on suspicion of being members Banglavesh the Shanti Bahini or helping them. There were numerous check posts on highways and ferries in Chittagong Continue reading Tracts.

People who are detained on suspicion are subjected to severe beating, electrocution, water boarding, hanging upside down, shoving burning cigarettes on bodies etc. Prisoners are detained in pits and trenches.

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The captives are then taken out for interrogation once at a time. It is suspected the attack was caused by internal conflicts between rival Chackma factions. This is the deadliest such incident involving the indigenous tribal Chackma people since the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in At the outbreak of the insurgency, the Government of Bangladesh deployed the army to begin counter-insurgency operations.

The then- President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman created a Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board under an army general to address the socio-economic see more of the region, but the entity proved unpopular and became a source of antagonism and mistrust amongst the native people against the government. The government failed to address the long-standing issue of the displacement of people, numbering an Banladeshcaused by the construction of the Kaptai Dam in Having constituted only Inthe government of then-president Hossain Mohammad Ershad passed the District Council Act created three tiers of The Conflict Of Bangladesh And India government councils to devolve powers and responsibilities to the representatives of the native Tye, but the councils were rejected and opposed by the PCJSS.

Peace negotiations were initiated after the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh inbut Baangladesh progress was made with the government of Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Ziathe widow of Ziaur Rahman and her Bangladesh Nationalist Party. The agreement recognised the special status of the hill residents.

Chakmas also live in India's Tripura State where a Tripuri separatist insurgency lasted between and ]