Chittagong Hill News
Bangladesh Mukti Bahini massacre 34 indigenous Buddhists and Hindus in Panchari
On 2 February 1992 Bangladesh army backed Muslim settlers killed about 30 indigenous Buddhist people at Mallya. 2 of them were Bablu Chakma and Chittipudi Chakma (6 months), son and daughter of Manek Kumar Chakma. Two bombs exploded at a river ferry at Mallya. The explosion killed a passenger and seriously injured the skipper of the ferry. The survivors swam ashore but the armed Muslim settlers were waiting for them and attacked the indigenous Chakma Buddhists - men women and children.
During the 1971 war for the independence of Bangladesh, thousands of indigenous people fought for independence against the Pakistan army in the hope that their condition would improve in independent Bangladesh.
On 5 December 1971, when the Pakistan army withdrew from Panchari, the Mukti Bahini (Freedom Fighters of Bangladesh) entered Panchari from Tripura state of India. The Mukti Bahini killed 18 indigenous men in Panchari who came out to receive them, plundered the area.
The Mukti Bahini killed another 16 indigenous men in Dighinala on the same day.