Hill Tracts not safe yet
Safety and security of hill people are yet to be ensured even after two decades of the signing of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) peace accord.
Nobody is safe in the CHT, Jyotirindro Bodhipriyo Larma alias Santu Larma said at the 35th death anniversary of MN Larma in the town yesterday.
Santu Larma, president of Parbattya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS), was present as the chief guest.
People cannot move in the CHT region safely. Many false cases were filed against many PCJSS leaders, activists and also ordinary indigenous people, he said.
They were put into jail. Someone is hatching a conspiracy to eliminate indigenous people in CHT and destroy CHT peace accord. This is never desirable for CHT people, said Santu Larma.
PCJSS observed its founder Manobendra Narayan Larma's 35th death anniversary in three hill districts through various programmes.
The programmes included wearing black badge, rallies and processions and memorial meeting at Silpakala Academy in Rangamati town and different places of other hill districts.
Speakers at the programme said, MN Larma was a leading proponent of the rights of the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. He wanted to make a discrimination-free society. In CHT, people lost an honest, competent, progressive and noble man.
They also urged CHT people to follow Larma's ideology.
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