Call to implement CHT peace accord fully
Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) chief Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma alias Shantu Larma yesterday called for full implementation of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Agreement, which was signed in 1997.
Eleven years have elapsed after the signing of the peace deal, but only one-third of the agreement has been implemented so far, he said at a rally on the ground of Rajbari Gymnasium in the town.
Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP), student wing of PCJSS, organised the rally on the occasion of its 20th founding anniversary.
Shantu, who is also the chairman of CHT Regional Council, said the previous Awami League government signed the agreement. So, the present AL government can't avoid its responsibility to implement the agreement fully.
He also alleged that a vested quarter is hatching a conspiracy to eliminate indigenous people and destroy the politics of PCJSS.
During the state of emergency, false cases were filed against many PCJSS leaders and they were put into jail, the PCJSS chief said.
He also urged the government to ban all activities of the anti-peace accord organisation, United People's Democratic Front (UPDF).
Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon MP said ethnic people are still being tortured and suppressed in the region as the peace accord could not be implemented fully.
He also demanded constitutional recognition of the indigenous people.
Demanding trial of all massacres in CHT, Communist Party President Manjurul Ahsan Khan said the lands as well as properties which were grabbed by Bangalee settlers must be returned to the indigenous people.
Presidium member of Gono Forum Pankaj Bhattcharya also spoke at the rally presided over by Udayan Tripura, president of PCP.
Earlier, leaders and workers of PCP took out a huge procession from the premises of Rajbari Gymnasium on the occasion.
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