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Tribal fighters lay down arms in Bangladesh, ending 22-year war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The war in the Chittacong Hill Tracts -- a rolling, forested stretch of southeastern Bangladesh -- is one of more than a half-dozen insurgencies now being waged by tribal peoples struggling for self-rule in this country and northeastern India. |
 | | In each, tribal groups, ethnically and linguistically distinct from the majority, are fighting to preserve their unique qualities in the face of overwhelming population pressures in countries where they live. |
 | | The 13 tribes inhabiting the Chittacong Hill Tracts are set apart from Bangladesh's Bengali majority, which is predominately Muslim, Bengali-speaking and of Indo-Aryan descent. |
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