Hill students demand end to land grabbing
Greater Chittagong Hill Tracts Hill Students' Council yesterday demanded an immediate end to grabbing of lands of indigenous people, shifting of settlers to plain lands and withdrawal of army camps from the CHT.
The ethnic people are living in fear as the government is patronising the settlers who are out to grab thousands of acres of lands, they said at a rally on Dhaka University campus, marking the 'Mahalchhari Devastation Day'.
On August 26 in 2003, the settlers killed two indigenous people, raped ten women and burned four hundred houses in Mahalchhari, the speakers said, adding that the settlers again launched a raid on Maischhari on April 3 in 2006 to grab more lands.
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Later, they took out a protest procession that paraded through the campus.