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Topic: Khagrachari district


In the News (Mon 1 Dec 08)

  
  eThikana.com :: Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
The picturesque headquarters of Rangamati Hill District, known for its rare scenic beauty and unspoiled tribal life, is just 77 km from Chittagong by road.
Khagrachari is the district headquarters of Khagrachari hill district.
Connected to Chittagong by a 92 km all-weather metalled road, Khagrachari is ringed by thick rain forests that shelter a wide variety of birds and animals.
ethikana.com /travel/hill_tracts.htm   (418 words)

  
 Treaty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Who is not a tribal and possesses land legally in the Hill District and generally lives at a certain address in the Hill District he shall be meant 'non-tribal permanent resident'.
As all the area of Khagrachari District is not included in the Mong Circle, so the words "Mong Circle Chief and Chakma Circle Chief" shall be placed in lieu of the words "Mong Chief of Khagrachari" in the section 26 of the Khagrachari Hill District Council Act.
After signing agreement between the govt and the JSS and implementation of it as well as after rehabilitation of the tribal refugees and internal tribal evacuees the govt shall start survey of land in CHT as soon as possible and after proper inquires ownership of land shall be recorded and ensured.
www.angelfire.com /ab/jumma/chtreaty.html   (3571 words)

  
 Bangladesh Trade Info :: Travel : Others
The town-ship, the focal point of Rangamati Hill District is located on the western bank of the Kaptai lake.
92 km from Chittagong by metalled road, Bangladesh is the district Headquarters of the Bandarban Hill district.
It is the district headquarters of Khagrachari hill district.
bdtradeinfo.com /travel/ta_others.asp   (924 words)

  
 Country   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Sources say, the demand of the three hill districts for the urga fertiliser during the last one year was 33,736 tonnes, for SSP 400 tonnes, DSP 760 tonnes and MOP 1,134 tonnes.
On receipt of the complaint, the district election officer Mujibur Rahman replaced the two BNP men with alternative persons, saying that the election office was not aware of their political identity during the time of deployment.
District Awami League president Shamsur Rahman Khan Shahjahan as per the decision of the meeting of executive committee in an order issued on January 6 dissolved the committee.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/jan/14/14012006ct.htm   (3245 words)

  
 .::United People's Democratic Front (UPDF)::.
The Khagrachari district unit of the party sponsored and helped organise a mass rally in celebration of the Boisabi festival.
UPDF held a mass rally at Mahalchari in protest against August 26 attack on 10 Jumma villages in Mahalchari under Khagrachari district.
He demanded of the government to immediately stop Operation Uttoran and withdraw the army from the CHT, rehabilitate the settlers elsewhere in the plain districts, rehabilitate the repatriated as well as Internally Displaced Persons and release all the UPDF members detained in jails.
www.updfcht.org /major.html   (1848 words)

  
 Introduction: Parbatya Bouddha Mission in Bangladesh
The Parbatya Bouddha Mission (PBM) is a non-profit organization working for the socio-economic, educational and cultural development of the indigenous minority people in the Khagrachari Hill District of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh.
The CHT is situated in the southeastern corner of Bangladesh and covers an area of approximately 5,093 square miles.
Since its establishment in 1983, PBM has been implementing programs relating to income generation, healthcare, women's rights issues and education that benefit and aim to put on a better path the impoverished indigenous minority people in the Khagrachari Hill District.
www.pbm-cht.org   (358 words)

  
 Chittagong Division News
Before our meeting with the D.C. Khagrachari I had telephonic talk from Dhaka and I requested him to remain in the office for discussion, but the D.C. was absent and he was very much reluctant to talk to us and not in a position to explain the situation over this destitute family.
Asoke Toru Saha of HRCBM rushed to the spot at Nandirhat under Hathazari police station, District -Chittagong on receipt of information over telephone that one minority Hindu girl was kidnapped on 16th of May,2006 from her house at Nandirhat.
Our Barisal correspondent adds: Leaders of district Awami League (AL) allege that BNP cadres have been seen preparing the voter list in most of the areas of the district to include their supporters while excluding the voters with a leaning towards the opposition.
hrcbmdfw.org /blogs/chittagong_division_news/default.aspx   (7026 words)

  
 Fighting for Full Autonomy | Greater Chittagong Hill tracts Hill Students' Council
Alok Mitra Chakma s/o Aungo Lal Chakma of village Tarabania, Dighinala Thana, Khagrachari district; 5.
Sanchay Kanti Chakma s/o Kalachan Chakma of village Shilchari, Borkal Thana, Rangamati district; 6.
Alok Bikash Chakma s/o Pratul Chandra Chakma of village Satgharia Para, Mahalchari Thana, Khagrachari district and 7.
www.freewebs.com /pcpcht/newsupdate.htm   (6922 words)

  
 Indigenous Rights Quarterly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Khagrachari District Bar Association condemned the incident, but no action was taken against the delinquent officer.
On 10 April 2006, a Jumma widow identified as Rupali Chakma, wife of late Dhan Kumar Chakma, was raped by an army officer, Subedar Kobad of Dwi-Tila army camp in Baghaihat in Rangmati district.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia appointed BNP Member of Parliament from Khagrachari, Wadud Buiyan as the Chairman of the CHTs Development Board on 11 February 2002 in violation of the CHTs Accord that provided for appointment of an indigenous person as the Chairperson.
www.aitpn.org /IRQ/vol1-1/story07.htm   (2149 words)

  
 Part 4 - Provisions of the CHT Accord of 1997 and Their Implementation Status   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
But in the Rangamati Hill District Act the words "in the name of the government or local authorities" have been replaced by the words "in the name of the government." The government has not yet taken any steps to amend the provision according to the accord.
The elected members of the Hill District Council shall, by indirect mode, elect the chairman of this council whose status shall be equivalent to that of a state minister and who shall be a tribal.
The chairmen of the three hill districts shall be ex officio members of the council and they shall have right to vote.
www.acdis.uiuc.edu:16080 /Research/OPs/Chowdhury/contents/part4.html   (6000 words)

  
 About Bangladesh By nobel4tech.com
This district provides the country with valuable wood used for various purposes, besides supplying wood and bamboo for the Karnaphuli Paper Mills and the Rayon Mills situated at Chandraghona.
Rangamati: Rangamati, the focal point of Rangamati Hill District, is connected with Chittagong by a 77 km.
Ninetytwo kilometer from Chittagong by metalled road, Bandarban is the district headquarters of the Bandarban Hill District.
www.nobel4tech.com /chittagong.htm   (1746 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The explosion occurred late Saturday during a religious gathering at the shrine of a Muslim saint, known as Mou Raja, in Habiganj district, 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Dhaka, local police officer Masuda Begum said by phone.
The half-hour shootout ensued when an army patrol surrounded the criminals’ den at a forested hill in Khagrachari district, 177 kilometers (110 miles) southeast of the capital, Dhaka, police officer Uttam Kumar Pal said.
Khagrachari is part of one of three hill districts where Bangladeshi tribal rebels waged a 25-year insurgency seeking autonomy before signing a 1997 peace deal with the government.
www.arabtimesonline.com /arabtimes/world/view.asp?msgID=7237   (577 words)

  
 Target: Bangla minorities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The report also said that in what appears to be a new trend, several orphanages being run by and for members from the minority communities are being targeted.
Following a second field investigation and video—taped interviews with victims and police officials in Satkhira district on June 21 and 22, Ghosh has documented serious incidents of persecution of Hindu families.
In one of these incidents, a local MP from the ruling BNP party, Md. Habibur Islam Habib is charged with terrorising a Chatterjee family in a brazen attempt to force her to leave the country and grab the substantial land they own.
www.hvk.org /articles/0902/3.html   (718 words)

  
 (148) 23 February 2004 : Attack on Dr
But in Bandarban district headquarters and Panchari upazila in Khagrachari there were communal attacks made upon PCJSS picketers by the Bengali settlers in collaboration with a section of vested interest group of government of Bangladesh.
Sudhakar Tripura s/o unknown of Khagrapur of Khagrachari upazila (Organising Secretary of Khagrachari district branch of PCJSS)
Pranati Bikash Chakma, President of PCJSS Khagrachari district branch, went to the house of Amar Sing Chakma at Charpara of Matiranga.
www.jpnuk.org.uk /hr/hr2004.htm   (14723 words)

  
 Incidents-October 2002
Tangail district district (proximately north of the capital city of Dhaka).
Joymonirkhol village, Mongla sub-district, Bagerhat district (in southwestern Bangladesh near the Bay of Bengal).
Kalapahar area, Laxmipur sub-district, Khagrachari district (in southeastern Bangladesh near the Indian state of Tripura).
www.mayerdak.com /incid_oct02.htm   (909 words)

  
 Reprisal Attacks against the Jummas
Although the deceased was mostly responsible for the accident, the extremely violent and lawless Muslim settlers took the law into their own hands and attacked the innocent Jumma passengers.
Chai Shao Marma of Kalapani, Guimara, Khagrachari District;
On the day for Upazilla (sub District) elections, the Bangladeshi Settlers led by Abdul Rashid Sarkar and the Bangladesh Army led by 2nd Lt. Mohsin of Tintilla camp attacked the Jumma villages in Longadu Upazilla, murdered and tortured the innocent villagers, raped their girls and women, and looted their valuables.
www.angelfire.com /ab/jumma/genocide/reprisal.html   (2096 words)

  
 Crime News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mazed is the son of Abdul Mazid Jowardar alias Hisab Jowardar of Kachubariya village under Amla union in Mirpur upazila of the district.
Sherpur correspondent of the news agency said Badar Uddin alias 'Badar Dakaat', son of local Jaamat leader of Killapara village Abdul Khaleque master under Nalitabari upazila of the district, was killed in police 'crossfire' early Monday at Gayekpara river side area in the district.
Member of the district unit of the United Peoples Democratic Front, Milton Chakma signed the press release that said a band of PCJSS activists, led by Karunashish Chakma kidnapped Tejendra from his house at Krishnamachhora in Naniarchor on October 24 last and later killed him.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/nov/01/01112005cr.htm   (1167 words)

  
 Asian Centre for Human Rights
Khagrachari District Bar Association condemned the incident, but no action has been taken against the delinquent soldiers.
The government had also issued notices for acquisition of 45 acres of land in Babuchara under Dighinala Thana in Khagrachari district, affecting at least 74 Jumma families in three villages; about 183 acres of land in Balaghata in Bandarban district; 19,000 acres of land in Bandarban; 26,000 acres of land in Bandarban for military purposes.
of Bandarban district for animal sanctuary; and 40,071 acres of land in Lama, Nikkyong Chari, Alikadam and
www.achrweb.org /Review/2006/119-06.htm   (1697 words)

  
 E:\DATA\SAHRDC\HRF\HRF11
Dhaka's procrastination on the District Council Bills, nomination of the members of the Regional Council, establishment of a Land Commission, rehabilitation of the internally displaced Jummas and returnee refugees and withdrawal of military camps bode ill for an uneasy calm that hovers over the sylvan hills of CHT.
The Khagrachari District administration formed a three-member committee headed by the Additional District Magistrate to probe the incident at Babuchhara Bazar in Dighinala thana.
On 22 April 1999, Mr Putul Chakma, 19 years, son of Mr Bimolendu Chakma of village Babupara, Panchari, Khagrachari district and Mr Suramoni Chakma, 21 years, son of Mr Fagunchan Chakma of Kutukchari under Rangamati district were killed after the Bangladesh Police fired indiscriminately at the indigenous Jummas at Khagrachari.
www.hri.ca /partners/sahrdc/hrfeatures/HRF11.htm   (1606 words)

  
 Project Information: Parbatya Bouddha Mission in Bangladesh
Of the three hill districts of the CHT, Khagrachari is less well known and somewhat less populated than it’s southern partners; Rangamati and Bandarban, thus making it less popular with aid programs.
PBM is centrally located approximately 2 kilometers from the main city of Khagrachari but its projects spread throughout the district and future plans include reaching out to both Rangamati and Bandarban.
The children of the orphanage project come from all three hill districts and many of PBM’s beneficiaries are return refugees from India and internally displaced refugees who have not been adequately rehabilitated.
pbm-cht.org /project_information.html   (944 words)

  
 Divisions of Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The South Asian country of Bangladesh consists of 6 divisions (bibhag), each named after its respective capital.
Each division is made up of several districts (zila):
This page was last modified 00:59, 28 December 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Divisions_of_Bangladesh   (72 words)

  
 Amida Trust Chakma News Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Activities of Khagrachari DC During the observation of the victory day, the chairman of Khagrachari Hill District Council was not given to take guard of honor.
As the Hindu community of Mohalchari bazar under Mohalchari P.S. in the district of Khagrachari did not cast their votes for the UPDF candidate, the UPDF terrorists demanded taka 2 hundred thousand from the fund raised for the Durga Puja festival.
Shubhashish Chakma s/o Bhagya Lal Chakma of Narankhiya under Khagrachari sadar was abducted from Narankhiya under Khagrachari sadar upazila in Khagrachari district and taken into Giriphul (headquarter of UPDF) by UPDF armed cadres.
www.amidatrust.com /chakma_b.html   (8754 words)

  
 Hindu priest killed in Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A Hindu priest has been allegedly killed by extortionists, in a hill district of Bangladesh in continued violence against the minority communities in the country.
Modal Gopal, a priest of Radha Madan Ashram in Manikchhari Upazila under Khagrachari hill district, was allegedly stabbed to death by a gang of criminals at the temple, police sources were quoted as saying by 'The Daily Star' today.
The Hindu community in Khagrachari marched to protest the murder and demanded the culprits be brought to book.
www.hvk.org /articles/0402/258.html   (193 words)

  
 Chittagong Hill Tracts: Monthly Report
Dipan Chakma is a student of Class IX of Khagrachari Vocational Textile Institute.
Abdul Wadud Bhuiyan, ruling party MP from Khagrachari hill district and communalist raised the issue why the indigenous activists were not summoned.
A memorandum on behalf of residents of Khagrachari district was submitted to Prime Minister of People’s Republic of Government of Bangladesh protesting the military atrocities on 16 November.
www.unpo.org /article.php?id=3336   (2022 words)

  
 [No title]
Yar Muhammad Khan, the Deputy Commissioner of Khagrachari District, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
For instance, he emphasized that the Hill District Council system was not acceptable and that the modification of the existing Hill District Council system would not fulfill the JSS demands set out in its Five-Point Charter of Demands.
Mohammad Shahjahan Chowdhury of the Jamat-I-Islami suggested that both the Hill District Council system and the Regional Council proposal should be set aside and that the Hill Council for the CHT should be formed to solve the CHT issue.
www.cwis.org /fwdp/Eurasia/jssbang2.txt   (2281 words)

  
 [No title]
Menon admitted that the General Officer Commanding for the Chittagong Division of the Bangladesh Army as the Chairman of the CHT Development Board was not acceptable to him at all.
Larma explained that the Hill District Councils as proposed by the JSS were quite different from the existing ones.
For instance, he said that the Hill District Councils were purely Local Government Institutions under the Regional Councils and their powers and authority had been prescribed in the framework of the Regional Council by the JSS.
www.cwis.org /fwdp/Eurasia/jssbang1.txt   (3677 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 519   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The three hill district councils and the CHT Regional Council are gradually loosing people's confidence as they are not elected.
She said she along with the chairmen of two other district councils held a meeting with the prime Minister and urged her to strengthen the councils by giving them more power.
The law Ministry says that as per provisions of the District Council Act, election should be held on the basis of a "separate voter list" based on local communities.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/11/12/d51112070166.htm   (881 words)

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