Teacher killed after rape in Bandarban

Source: The Daily Star, Sunday, June 08, 2014

Link: http://www.thedailystar.net/country/teacher-killed-after-rape-in-bandarban-27476

A schoolteacher was killed allegedly after gang rape in Ngarheisatong area of Roangchhari upazila on Friday.
The deceased was identified as U Pru Marma, 24, a teacher at Ananda School run by a non-government organisation (NGO).
Officer in-Charge of Roangchari police station Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan quoting locals said, U Pru Marma was killed by the Rohingyas after rape. She had gone 'missing' on Friday at around 9:00am, he added.
Locals found her body at 11:30pm at the valley of Ngarheisatong hill of Bangchhari in the upazila.
The criminals might have killed her after rape as she bore some injury marks on the body, he added.
Locals caught Tara Chang Tanchangya alias Debong Tanchangya, 27, and Musalm, 28, of Bangchhari area of the upazila on suspicion and beat them up.
Critically injured Musalm died at Sadar Hospital, the OC said.
Contacted, District Police Superintendent Devdas Bhattacharya Tara Chang Tanchangya confessed to police that he along with three other Rohingyas of the area raped U Pru Marma and killed her.

250 Bangladeshi tribals seek refuge in Tripura

Courtesy: Business Standard, Agartala, June 3, 2014 

Link: http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/250-bangladeshi-tribals-seek-refuge-in-tripura-114060301889_1.html

"Over 250 men, women and children of Chakma and Tripuri tribes have taken shelter in northern Tripura's Gandachara area along the international border since Monday after fleeing their villages in Khagrachari district," Gandachara sub-divisional magistrate Bhaskar Dasgupta told IANS over phone.

"The tribals entered India Monday and Tuesday after ethnic trouble in Bangladesh.We have asked the Border Security Force (BSF) to step up security along the unfenced border," he said.

The tribals fled from the Chittagong Hill Tracts by Muslims in southeast Bangladesh after ethnic clashes and incidents of arson. The exact reason for the conflict is not yet known. A state home department official said Tripura has informed the union home ministry about the development.

The BSF here also informed their headquarters in New Delhi and is coordinating on the matter with the Border Guards Bangladesh. In a similar incident in August last year, over 1,500 tribals took shelter in the border village of Karbook after fleeing from five villages in the same Khagrachari district over the reported abduction of a leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Tripura shares a 856-km border with Bangladesh which is porous because it extends over mountains that are densely forested.

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Over 250 Chakma and Tripuri tribals left their habitats in CHT and took sheltered in the Indian state of Tripura

June 4, 2014

ACN Staff Reporter
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Buddhist monks protest move to acquire 25 acres of land

Courtesy: The Daily Star | Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Buddhist monks form a human chain in front of Bandarban Press Club yesterday, protesting a BGB move to acquire 25 acres of land in Taracha area of Rowangchhari upazila of the district. Photo: Star

Buddhist monks and indigenous people formed a human chain in the district town yesterday, protesting BGB's move to acquire about 25 acres of land at Taracha mouza in Rowangchhari upazila.

They have urged the government not to allocate the land to the BGB as several historical structures, including Ram Jadi temple, meditation centre, Ram Mahabijoy Buddhist temple and Ram Naung Daw Gre Jadi temple, are situated in the area.

At the human chain programme, speakers said Buddhist devotees will be unhappy if the plan of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to acquire the land is implemented.

Shai Thoai Ching Marma, chairman of Taracha union parishad, Bacho Mong Marma, secretary of Ram Jadi temple committee, and Mong Shai Prue Marma, among others, spoke on the occasion.

Later, they submitted a memorandum to the prime minister through Deputy Commissioner KM Tariqul Islam in favour of the demand.

The indigenous people also brought out a procession in the town.

BGB Bandarban office sources said the acquisition of land is under process to build BGB Bandarban sector headquarters in the mouza as no people reside in the area.

Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/country/buddhist-monks-protest-move-to-acquire-25-acres-of-land-22051