Hill Watch Human Rights Forum
NEWS No. 01/2007, April 02, 2007
Members of the Bangladesh military yesterday arrested five persons including wife of UPDF leader Sachib Chakma and tortured two villagers in a remote hilly hamlet in Rangamati district.
Sources said a group of army personnel from Jurippya Para camp raided the house of Sachib Chakma, a central committee member of the United People’s Democratic Front, in the village of Bogachari and beat up his father Mereya Chakma (67), and another villager Arun Chakma (40).
The army asked for Sachib Chakma, but he was not available at the time. The soldiers then took his father Mereya Chakma, his wife Manekpudi Chakma, his two children aged 2 and 4 and Arun Chakma to Naniachar army zone headquarters. The army personnel also misbehaved with his wife, who is a teacher of a primary school in Kawakhali.
Sachib Chakma was arrested twice before – first on 11 February 1998 for voicing criticism to the CHT Accord and then on 23 May 2005 along with 13 others from Khagrachari office of the UPDF while they were holding a meeting. He was released on bail a few moths back from Chittagong jail.
After the declaration of state of emergency on 12 January, military operations have been stepped up in the CHT. At least 8 UPDF members have been arrested since then. The military is using the emergency rules to unleash sweeping political repression against UPDF and its front organisations.
NEWS No. 01/2007, April 02, 2007
Members of the Bangladesh military yesterday arrested five persons including wife of UPDF leader Sachib Chakma and tortured two villagers in a remote hilly hamlet in Rangamati district.
Sources said a group of army personnel from Jurippya Para camp raided the house of Sachib Chakma, a central committee member of the United People’s Democratic Front, in the village of Bogachari and beat up his father Mereya Chakma (67), and another villager Arun Chakma (40).
The army asked for Sachib Chakma, but he was not available at the time. The soldiers then took his father Mereya Chakma, his wife Manekpudi Chakma, his two children aged 2 and 4 and Arun Chakma to Naniachar army zone headquarters. The army personnel also misbehaved with his wife, who is a teacher of a primary school in Kawakhali.
Sachib Chakma was arrested twice before – first on 11 February 1998 for voicing criticism to the CHT Accord and then on 23 May 2005 along with 13 others from Khagrachari office of the UPDF while they were holding a meeting. He was released on bail a few moths back from Chittagong jail.
After the declaration of state of emergency on 12 January, military operations have been stepped up in the CHT. At least 8 UPDF members have been arrested since then. The military is using the emergency rules to unleash sweeping political repression against UPDF and its front organisations.
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