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| Chakmas, Bangladesh
© Mark McEvoy/Survival |
Twelve thousand people from the Mru, Bowm and Marma tribes are to be
thrown off their land to make way for the expansion of an army base in
the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.
The army has acquired the land without consultation with the local people.
The move goes against the spirit of the 1997 peace accord, signed
between the government and the tribal people of the Hill Tracts, which
sought to reduce the number of military in the region rather than
increase it.
