Chittagong Hill News
Bangladesh Mukti Bahini massacre 22 indigenous Chakma Buddhists at Kukichara
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.
In the first week of December 1971, when the Pakistan army withdrew from Khagrachari, the Mukti Bahini (Freedom Fighters of Bangladesh) entered Panchari from Tripura state of India. They gradually moved south toward the Khagrachari town.
On 14 December 1971, the Mukti Bahini (Bangladeshi freedom fighters) entered Kukichara village north of Khagrachari town and killed 22 indigenous people and burned 200 houses.