CHT peace accord to be implemented
Initiatives will be taken as per the roadmap to fully implement the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord, said Mahbub Ul Alam Hanif, acting general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League.
“We'll meet the prime minister and then initiatives will be taken to implement the CHT Peace Accord as per its roadmap,” he told a triennial conference of Khagrachhari district Juba League at Town Hall yesterday.
Hanif said the politics of killing began in the CHT after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, sowing the seed of divide among the ethnic minorities.
He said assuming power after long 21 years the then Hasina government took initiatives to establish peace in the CHT in 1997 apart from ensuring economic emancipation of the nation.
Hanif said the government has started works to implement the peace accord again, but the BNP has 'waged a war' with their long-march against the peace process and the country's development.
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