Chittagong Hill News
Bengali settlers grab indigenous Buddhist land in Longadu
On August 3 2013, Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers wielding sharp knives and machetes began to attack indigenous Buddhist and Hindu people in Taindong of Matiranga, claiming thatindigenous miscreantshad kidnapped a Muslim settler named Kamal Hossain. At least 50 indigenous people were wounded and 3 were killed. More than 1,500 indigenous men, women and children fled to the India-Bangladesh border. Indigenous Chakma and Tripuri refugees in temporary refugee camps set up by BSF (Border Security Force of India) in Indo-Bangladesh border.
On 31 December 1984, Muslim settlers with the backing of Bangladesh army forcibly occupied the farmland of Mr. Lushai Mohan Chakma (45), son of Mr. Ultamoni Chakma of Adorok Chara of Tintilla in Longadu, Rangamati district.
When he appealed to the Bangladesh army commander of the Korolya Chari Camp, he was flatly told that if indigenous people did not give lands to the Muslim settlers then no indigenous person would be allowed to plough their own lands. The BD army commander told Mr. Chakma that if necessary indigenous villages would be burnt down in the name of combing operation against the Shanti Bahini.
The Muslim settlers were identified as:
Mohammad Abdur Rashid (Chairman of Union Council)
Mohammad Jabbar (leader of the Muslim settler)
Abdur Rob
Shah Noor
Ayatollah
Hashmat Ali
Nurul Amim
The Muslim settlers were backed by:
Subedar Muslimuddin from Korolya Chari Army Camp
Havildar Abdur Rob
Sources:
PCJSS(Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti)