Six Adivasi children rescued

A group of indigenous students of Dhaka University on Sunday rescued six Adivasi children, thought to be sent to different madrasas in Dhaka city and its outskirts, from a residential hotel of the capital's Fakirapool area.
The rescuers captured one Binoy Tripura, who brought the kids of Tripura community aged 5-12 from Chimbuk Hills in Bandarban.
Binoy took 19 children from Bandarban promising their parents that they would be sent to Christian Missionaries for education. He started for Dhaka on Saturday, left 13 kids at Chakaria en route, and reached Dhaka with the six, said Mukul Tripura, a rescuer.
"Binoy has confessed to us that he was about to send the children to different madrasas in Dhaka and its outskirts." He did it for money, Mukul told The Daily Star.
The rescued children have been sent to a Christian Missionary in Bandarban. They will be handed over to their parents. The 13 other children have also been taken to Bandarban from Chakaria, said Mukul.
"We have kept Binoy in our supervision in Dhaka…his parents will come to Dhaka tomorrow (today). Then we will decide further action against him," he said.
Earlier police rescued 16 indigenous children from a madrasa, mosque and non-government Islamic organisation on January 2 and 11 others from different madrasas in Dhaka in August last year. They were allegedly converted to Muslims and given Islamic education.