Mangal Kumar Chakma

The framework of special governance for the CHT region lies in the proper implementation of the CHT Accord.

The CHT Accord remains unfulfilled 27 years later, leaving the Jumma people in turmoil.

To bring resolution, the historic CHT Accord was signed in 1997 to ensure a perennial solution to the CHT crisis through peaceful and political means.

The CHT issue is a political and national issue.

There is no room to think that the deluge will stop if the government continues to ignore international calls for CHT Accord implementation.

Human rights violations of Indigenous peoples, especially land-grabbing, continued unabated

Dipankar Talukdar, member of parliament (MP) from the Parbatya Rangamati (299) constituency, while taking part in the budget discussion during the 18th session of Jatiya Sangsad on June 16, said, “Nowhere is it mentioned in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord that police cannot be deployed at the army-withdrawn camp sites.”

It has been 24 years since the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord was signed, yet the situation in the region is still overwhelmingly fragile.