Govt for wiping out hill people: Santu Larma

The chief of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti, Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, on Friday said that the government was hatching a deep conspiracy to annihilate the entire Jumma people living in hills and erase their history.
Jyotirindra, popularly known as Santu Larma, said the entire state machinery is out to implement the ill plot and designate the CHT region as a Muslim dominated area.
He said such a blueprint will put the existence of fourteen ethnic minority community people at stake in the three hill districts.
Santu was addressing a rally of Pahari Chhatra Parishad at Gymnasium ground of Rajbari area in the tourist town, as chief guest.
On the occasion of 27th founding anniversary and its council, the hill students’ council organised the rally. Nearly two thousand people attended it.
The government is behind the infiltration of ‘Rohingya’ into the hill districts which is meant for expansion of Islam in the region as per the plan, Santu observed.
The former guerrilla leader, who is now the chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, said, the Jumma rebels signed the CHT accord with the government in 1997 to bring peace in the hills.
‘Unfortunately, fundamental clauses of the accord remained unaccomplished though nearly 2 decades had elapsed,’ Santu lamented.
He claimed that some ruling party leaders from the hills were obstructing the execution of the peace deal and conspiring against the Jumma people (who live on slash and burn farming system).
Grabbing of ethnic people’s land by the Bengali settlers is rising; he said adding the army men are dominating the civil administration, from top to bottom.
Warning that the entire Jumma people will launch a non-stop movement against the government if peace treaty is not executed, Santu urged the incumbent government to expedite the peace treaty’s implementation process.
Ushatan Talukder MP, vice president of PCJSS, Shimul Kanti Boishnab, president of Chittagong Chhatra Union, Rimita Chakma, secretary of Hill Women’s Federation, activists Shishir Chakma and Udoyan Tripura, spoke, among others.
Bachchu Chakma, president of PCP, central unit, chaired the rally while Jewel Chakma, its general secretary, moderated.
A procession was brought out from Gymnasium ground which paraded the main thoroughfares in the town.

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