The 2013 Human Rights Report on Indigenous people of Bangladesh has been published by the Kapaeeng Foundation, with the support of Oxfam and the European Union.
The
report shows that, in 2013, the number of incidents of human rights
against indigenous peoples have again increased. There has been a
significant increase in the destruction, burning and looting of
indigenous property and in the number forced to escape across the border
(2,000).
“Human rights of indigenous peoples in the Chittagong Hills Tract
and plain lands are still being violated in an alarming manner. In most
cases, the state authority fail to investigate the alleged human rights
violations properly, which were committed directly by state-machineries
as well as by third parties such as Bengali settlers, illegal land
grabbers, private companies and local administrations. The indigenous
victims of human rights violations are often neither provided with
essential protection nor co-operated in filing charges against the
perpetrators. As a result, the offenders usually do not face any
prosecution and punishments. “
There have recently been more
attacks on indigenous people, particularly women in the Chittagong Hill
Tracts (CHT). Over the last month a Chakma woman was raped and killed, a Chakma girl was raped, a temple ransacked and settlers have attacked villages.
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