Attack on Adivasi families protested

Adivasi Chhatra Parishad, a student body of ethnic minorities of the country, formed a human chain in Rajshahi city yesterday protesting an attack on some Adivasi families in Godagari upazila by some influential people of the mainstream majority community on January 16.
The speakers at the human chain at Shaheb Bazar Zero Point intersection demanded punishment to the attackers who were threatening to kill the victims to grab the khas land on which the Adivasi families live.
On January 16, a group of influential local people, led by Abdus Sattar of Kagthia village in Godagari upazila, assaulted some members of the Adivasi families and raped an indigenous woman who resides in a khas land of the village, they said.