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  Chittagong Hill Tracts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chittagong Hill Tracts comprise an area of 13,180 km
The Chittagong Hill Tracts were once known as Korpos Mohol, the name used until 1860.
A good source of information on Shanti Bahini and, indeed, on the Chittagong Hill Tracts people, is the letter to the editor of the New York Times by Professor Bernard Nietschmann published on October 25, 1986 (archived by the Fourth World Documentation Project).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chittagong_Hill_Tracts   (477 words)

  
 CHITTAGONG - LoveToKnow Article on CHITTAGONG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The DIsTRIcT OF CHITTAGONG is situated at the north-east corner of the province, occupying a strip of coast and hills between the sea and the mountains of Burma.
The northern portion of the district is traversed by the Assam-Bengal railway.
It consists of the districts of Chittagong, the Hill Tracts, Noakhali and Tippera.
www.1911ency.org /C/CH/CHITTAGONG.htm   (399 words)

  
 Chittagong Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chittagong Division is one of the six administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
The chief agricultural products of the Chittagong region are paddy, betel leaf, potato, cotton, tea, peanut, mustard, patol (heap), brinjal, ginger, bean and other vegetables.
The city of Chittagong is a very prominent port and is also Bangladesh's largest one.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chittagong_division   (264 words)

  
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The root of the crisis in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is that the Bangladeshi regime wants only the land of the CHT for its coreligionists and not the indigenous people who are ethnically, religiously and culturally different from the majority community of Bangladesh.
Ali Haider Khan, the Deputy Commissioner of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and Mr.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts case: Genocide in context', a paper presented to the International Conference organised by the University of Copenhagen in April 1981.
www.cwis.org /fwdp/Eurasia/cht_cris.txt   (6261 words)

  
 Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT): Parbatya Bouddha Mission in Bangladesh
The region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), is situated in the southeastern corner of Bangladesh.
It shares a common international border with the States of Tripura and Mizoram of India to its north and northeast, and the Arakan Hills of Myanmar to the east; to its west, it is totally encircled by the district of Chittagong.
The CHT is a unique territory of Bangladesh with mountains and beautiful landscapes in stark contrast to the alluvial, monsoon-flooded plains of the rest of Bangladesh.
pbm-cht.org /chittagong_hill_tracts.html   (713 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Chittagong Hill Tracts Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Chittagong Hill Tracts is an area of 13,180 km² in south-eastern Bangladesh, on the border with India and Myanmar.
CHT is under the Chittagong division and has three districts: Khagrachari, R...
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is an area of 13,180 km² in south-eastern Bangladesh, on the border with India and Myanmar (Burma).
www.ipedia.com /chittagong_hill_tracts.html   (133 words)

  
 Cungbik
CHT ram chaklei (Northern Chittagong) i a um, miphun tam deuh cu Teppera (Tripura) an si.
Kum 1919 in " Distircts of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong " tiah min thar a pu i, Deputy Commisioner kut tang ah a um.
CHTs uknaak cu " Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Division " tang ah an chiah.
cacc.info /Articles/Cungbik.html   (6143 words)

  
 Minorities At Risk (MAR)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Chittagong Hill Tribes have four of the factors that increase the likelihood of rebellion in the future: sporadic violent acts in the region in 1999 and 2000; territorial concentration; Bangladesh's limited history of democratic rule; and a history of lost autonomy.
The Chittagong Hill Tribes primarily reside in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region of southeastern Bangladesh.
The Chittagong tribals suffer from various demographic stresses including: very limited public health facilities; environmental decline which is a result of massive deforestation; dispossession from their land; and competition with the Bengalis to settle on underutilized land.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/bangcht.htm   (1112 words)

  
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Because of this trade tax in cotton the Chittagong Hill Tracts came to be known as the Karpas Mahal or Land of Cotton during Mugal era.
The British annexed the Chittagong Hill Tracts in 1860, more than a century after the battle of Palashy (in 1757) in which the Nawab of Bengal Siraj Uddollah was defeated in the hands of the British forces.
During the early periods of its rule, the British refrained from interfering with the internal affairs of the CHT and though administered from Calcutta, the CHT was not a regular part of Bengal.
www.updfcht.org /history.html   (1558 words)

  
 Silent Genocide in CHT
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is the south eastern mountainous region of Bangladesh.
Racial and religious hatred motivated the Bangladeshi military and settlers to perpetrate nastiest genocide in the CHT.
What is unique about the genocide in the CHT is the lack of awareness of the nature and extent of it in the outside world.
www.angelfire.com /ab/jumma   (211 words)

  
 Chittagong Hill Tracts    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is situated in the south eastern corner of Bangladesh bordering India to the north and Burma to the east.
The total population of the CHT, in 1991 census, was 974,445 of which 51,43% were indigenous Jumma people and 48,57% were non-indigenous Bengalis.
At the time of the independence of India in 1947, only 9% of the population of the CHT was non- indigenous.
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 BackgroundCHT
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) [map] is situated in the southern part of Bangladesh.
CHT was, at that time, under the control of freedom Kuki group and the land remained ultra vires till British invasion.
On 1st august,1860, accordingto Bengal Government Actxxii 1860 the hill area was seperated from the Chittagong district due to the Kukis rebellion and ceated the new district(W.W. Hunter,p.7 and Satter,P.135).
bawm.info /CHT.htm   (3138 words)

  
 .::United People's Democratic Front (UPDF)::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The impact of the dam on both the socio-economic and environmental aspects of the CHT society is colossal.
This backward moving aspect of the Hill people resulting from the Kaptai dam is often overlooked, and much less is ascertained as to the extent it created negative impact on environment.
Another issue that affects every aspect of the Hill peoples` life and society including environment is the influx of the settlers, who were brought into the CHT under government sponsored scheme for political purposes.
www.updfcht.org /jum.html   (1811 words)

  
 Chittagong Hill Tracts
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) occupies a physical area of 5.093 sq.
The districts comprise seven main valleys formed by the Feni, Karnafuli, Chengi, Myani, Kassalong, Sangu and Matamuhuri rivers aid their tributaries and numerous hills, ravines and cliffs covered with dense vegetation, which are in complete contrast to most other districts of Bangladesh, which consist mainly of alluvial lands.
It is surrounded by the Indian states of Tripura on the north and Mizoram on the east, Myanmar on the south and east and Chittagong district on the west.
www.angelfire.com /ab/jumma/cht.html   (129 words)

  
 ELUSIVE PEACE IN THE CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS: A BACKGROUNDER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Looking back into the history of the CHT problem, (which this article intends to do) it is interesting to note that the CHT was an autonomously administered district, in British administered India and was safeguarded by the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regulation 1900, which prohibited sale and transfer of land to non-indigenous people.
This triggered the ethnic conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
A third issue is the position of the disaffected political groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts who consider the accord to have failed to respond to their aspiration of full autonomy.
www.saag.org /papers16/paper1540.html   (1429 words)

  
 BANGLADESH:PLANNED ETHNOCIDE OF MINORITYNATIONALITIES IN CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTSby theBangladesh Peoples Democratic ...
The district is bound on the west by Chittagong district; on the south by Burma and on the east by the Arakan Hill Tracts of Burma and the Lushai Hill on north by Tripura State of India.
The percentage of immigrants in the CHT is the highest among all the districts of Bangladesh.
The military operation in CHT is costing the country huge expenditures both in terms of foreign exchange and internal resources which should be used for the development of Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world.
www.radicalparty.org /humanrights/chit_do8.htm   (1458 words)

  
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They practice shifting cultivation on the hills (known as "jhums"), are predominantly Buddhist, have their own languages, and have lived according to their customs and traditions in peace and harmony in their ancestral lands since time immemorial.
Statistical data indicates that nearly half the Bangladesh army is stationed in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, an area one-tenth the total land mass.
As the first international commission to have been granted access to the Hill Tracts this recommendation is significant to protect the land rights of the Jummas prior to the entire dispossession of their traditional homelands.
www.cwis.org /fwdp/Eurasia/cht_1.txt   (2107 words)

  
 Shobak: Outsider Asians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In response, both the Army and Navy in the area are fortified to the extent that the ratio of armed forces to CHT residents is 1:5.
According to one study, 68 tribal women were raped between 1991 and 1995 in the southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts when troops fought tribal rebels in the area.
The main problem for CHT is the exploitation of the poor and the less powerful minorities by the rich and powerful group of population, mostly from the plain land.
www.shobak.org /jumma_comments.php?id=51_0_10_0_C   (4981 words)

  
 CHITTAGONG - Online Information article about CHITTAGONG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
hill being the sacred Sitakund, 1155 ft. high.
ships as far as Chittagong port, and by large trading boats for a considerable distance higher up, and the Halda and the Sangu, which are also navigable by large boats.
In 1901 the population was 124,762, showing an increase of 16 % in the decade.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHA_CHR/CHITTAGONG.html   (558 words)

  
 Chittagong Hill Tracts districts
The Chittagong Hill Tracts are comprised of the following districts: Rangamati, Bandarbans and Khagrachari.
The Hill Tracts area is quite different from the rest of the country due to its physical appearance and the presence of the tribal people.
Rangamati is only 77 km away from Chittagong and used to be the district headquarter of the greater Chittagong Hill Tracts districts.
www.travelbd.com /hill_tracts.htm   (255 words)

  
 Conflict Summary
Under British colonial rule the CHT had enjoyed a special status that made migration into the area virtually prohibited and provided the area with limited self-government.
The incompatibility concerning the constitutional status of the area was explicitly voiced at a meeting that took place in February 1972, between the new government of Bangladesh and a tribal delegation.
A key provision in the accord was the creation of a CHT regional council, comprising the three district councils, with a range of autonomous responsibilities.
www.pcr.uu.se /database/conflictSummary.php?bcID=136   (972 words)

  
 2.08.1985 THE BANGLADESH PRESENTATION TO THE (UNITED NATIONS)WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS POPULATIONSIn Reply to the ...
Only a few months ago that is in May this year, the people of Bangladesh, including the entire population in the Chittagong Hill Tracts participated in electing Upazila Chairmen, the elected head of the local administration, in a peaceful atmosphere on the basis of one man one vote.
In fact, any movement of people to and from the Chittagong Hill Tracts is comparable to normal intra-regional migration in any other country and by no way assumed, at any point of time, an overwhelming proportion so as to cause perceptible and substantive harm to local people.
The genuine desire to help the people of Chittagong Hill Tracts reflected in these special efforts have an added significance as these efforts are being made at a time when Bangladesh is faced with a very critical situation with respect to availability of resources to be employed in different priority areas.
www.radicalparty.org /humanrights/chit_do7.htm   (1371 words)

  
 Jummarefugees
The Bangladesh armed forces and the Bangladeshi settlers had committed numerous massacres and atrocities against the indigenous Jumma people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) as part of the Bangladesh Government's policy to wipe out the Jumma people from their traditional homeland in order to populate it with the Bangladeshi settlers.
Since the CHT conflict started in 1975 the Jumma refugees cross the border three times, in 1981 to Tripura, in 1984 to Mizoram and in 1986 to Tripura.
Return to their native villages is, of course, impossible for these refugees because their homes and possessions have been appropriated by Bengali settlers, so they join the tens of thousands of homeless now in the Hill Tracts.
www.geocities.com /jummanation/Jummarefugees.html   (709 words)

  
 Countrybookshop.co.uk - Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, The
Ending a 20-year-long armed insurgency, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord was signed in December 1997 by the government of Bangladesh and the PCJSS, the political representative of the Hill people.
She is author of The Politics of Nationalism: The Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.
Ending a two-decade-long armed insurgency, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord was signed in December 1997 by the government of Bangladesh and the PCJSS, the political representative of the Hill people.
www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books?whatfor=1588261387   (237 words)

  
 Bangladesh Center for Human Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Hill Tracts remains one of the most highly militarized regions in the world, in spite of the signing of a ‘Peace Accord’ between the Government of Bangladesh and Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) in 1997, which aspired to end conflict in the hills..
Seven years after the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) peace accord on December 2, 1997, discontent persists in the region as the government did not fully implement the accord.
The hills people are unhappy that army presence in the region continued despite the peace accord.
www.bbchr.org   (1696 words)

  
 The Chittagong Hill Tracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
WFP launched the Expanded Food Assistance (EFA) Programme in the Chittagong Hill Tracts(CHTS) in August 1998 on a three-year pilot basis.
The programme is an area-based intervention with two main objectives: i) to meet the critical socio-economic needs of the poor population, and thus improve their livelihood; and ii) to support the peace stabilizing process and build trust among the population.
The development of the CHTs, and in particular its vulnerable population, is a high priority on the agenda of GOB and its donor partners.
www.un-bd.org /un/wfp/chapter11.htm   (974 words)

  
 Elusive Peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The three extrajudicial executions of Jummas (hill peoples) on 16 October 1999 is one more reminder that the peace accord seems to have been written on sand.
The Government of Bangladesh announced the formation of the CHTs Regional Council under the leadership of Mr Shantu Larma, the JSS supremo, in September 1998.
The CHTs, sandwiched between the Arakan hills of Burma and the North East India is the homeland of ten different ethnic nationalities namely the Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Khiyang, Lushai, Khumi, Chak, Murung, Bowm and Pankoo for the last few centuries.
www.hrdc.net /sahrdc/hrfeatures/HRF11.htm   (1644 words)

  
 Parbatya Bouddha Mission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Our Mission was begun in 1983 with the opening of a new temple dedicated to teaching the Buddha-Dhamma among the Hill People of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and the opening of an orphanage to provide homes for children orphaned through the on-going conflict in the CHT.
Our land has been donated by local Buddhist people, although they are quite poor and many hill people have lost their farm land to "settlers" from the lowlands.
All the people of the CHT are hopeful that the Peace Accord between the new government and the legitimate representatives of the indigenous peoples of the CHT will lead to a lasting and just peace, but implementation has been difficult and spotty.
www.suanmokkh.org /ds/pbm1.htm   (829 words)

  
 U.N. Official Says Chittagong Hill Tracts Now Safe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A U.N. official has called for resumption of development activities in the conflict-ridden Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh near the Myanmar and Indian borders, insisting the area is now safe enough for small projects and tourism to restart.
Peace returned to the Chittagong Hill Tracts following the signing of a peace deal between rebels and government forces.
U.N. Development Program resident mission head Joergon Lissner yesterday handed over the report of the assessment mission to the government and said that measures to boost employment and build confidence between the different groups should be at the "top of the agenda" in order to ensure harmony in the community.
www.unwire.org /unwire/20020815/28352_story.asp   (295 words)

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