Bangladesh: Tribal people living in fear after attacks - Survival International

18.2.11

Bangladesh: Tribal people living in fear after attacks - Survival International: "This weekend marks the first anniversary of a vicious attack on Jumma tribal people by settlers and soldiers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Two Jummas, a man and a woman, were killed, 450 houses were burnt down and more than 25 Jummas were injured in the violence last year.

Before the attacks, tensions had been mounting between Jummas and Bengali settlers, who with the support of the army had been expanding their settlements onto Jumma land. Hundreds of thousands of settlers have been moved to the Hill Tracts by the Bangladesh government over the last sixty years. The settlers have displaced many of the Jumma tribal people who have also been subjected to violent repression by the army."