Santal’s demand to get back their land logical: Sultana Kamal

Human Rights Activist Sultana Kamal today said the demands of Santals to get their land back and punishment of perpetrators are logical and the government should comply with their demands.

“If the government does not accept their eight-point demand, then the Santals will leave the country and that is completely against the principles of the Liberation War,” Sultana Kamal said at a programme.

National Adivasi Parishad, Shahebganj Bagda Farm Land recovery committee, Bangladesh Adivasi Forum and Association for Land Reform Development arranged the programme at the Jatiya Press Club this afternoon.

Those who attended the programme demanded their inherited land should be returned, and those who attacked Santals and set fire on their house on November 6, 2016 should be punished.

While addressing the program, Justice Mohammed Nizamul Huq also said the demands are not very difficult for the government to meet and they should do it immediately.