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Chakma | Buddhist | From Chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh |
Jun 23, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
Ship breaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh has unusually high number of work related fatalities and injuries.
Due to extreme poverty and political situations in Chittagong hill tracts many Jummas also working in ship breaking yard and carrying out such dangerous jobs.
(Thread) Image A Chakma man Ripon Chakma was killed on Saturday(19/06/2021) during a work related incident at a ship breaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Dangerous gases could have caused the explosion which took his life.

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Jun 2, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
On This Day:
02/06/2017, a massive communal & arson attack was carried out by Bengali muslim settlers & B'desh army on indigenous Buddhist villages in Langadu, Rangamati dist, Bangladesh.
More than 300 Chakma houses burnt to ashes. Many villages completely burnt down.
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Thousands of Chakmas fled their homes and took refuge in jungle. Women, children, elders had to flee many miles just to survive from planned barbaric attacks.
If you are reading this pls spare a moment for the indigenous Jumma minorities of Chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh.


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Dec 23, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
Muslim settlers trying to instigate violence over CHT land Commission meeting today.

Bengali settlers, evidently under guidance of Army, block the CHT Land Commission in Rangamati Hill District
Report reads:
"Today (23 December 2019) in the morning, the Bengali Muslim settlers under the banner of newly formed and army-backed Parbatya Nagarok Parishad halted and surrounded Chairman of CHT Regional Council Mr. Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, Chakma Circle Chief Raja Devasish Roy and Chairman of CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission Mr. Anowar-Ul Hoque
Oct 31, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read
Here is a conversation between #SardarVallabhbhaiPatel and #Chakma leader Sneha Kumar Chakma regarding inclusion of #ChittagongHillTracts under India in 1947. Brfore partition, July 1947

Sneha Kumar Chakma-
"I am flying back to CHT to declare it INDIA AND RESIST if it happens otherwise! Will you stand behind me, Sir?"

Sardar-
"Certainly, I will be with you, behind CHT! Go back, hurry back"!