CHT turns into safe haven for extortionists

January 9, 2017

Ahamed Ullah, back from Chittagong Hill Tracts: [dropcap font=”arial” fontsize=”60″]C[/dropcap]hittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) has become a safe haven for extortionists, who are allegedly getting patronage from three regional political groups — United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (JSS-Santu) and Jana Continue Reading

Tribal armed gangs looting trees in CHT

January 6, 2017

Reza Mahmud : [dropcap font=”arial” fontsize=”60″]T[/dropcap]The tribal armed gangs are looting thousands of trees from the reserve forests in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), leaving a very adverse impact on the environment. Besides, the terrorists have burned many hills to prepare those for Jhum cultivations. But the officials of forest department Continue Reading

Smuggling of firearms into country rampant thru CHT

January 6, 2017

Ahamed Ullah, back from Chittagong Hill Tracts: [dropcap font=”arial” fontsize=”60″]M[/dropcap]any sophisticated arms are being smuggled into Bangladesh from neighbouring Myanmar and India through porous borders in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). Sources in law enforcement agencies and many locals gave the information during this correspondent’s visit Continue Reading

Tribal militants also ruining social harmony in CHT

July 16, 2016

parbattanews report: [dropcap font=”arial” fontsize=”60″]D[/dropcap]ateline 29 May last. A 17-year old teenage Chakma girl entered in a computer center owned by Bengali youth for doing some urgent tasks. This incident irked the members of Santu Larma-backed Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP). The PCP armed cadres dragged out the girl from the shop and Continue Reading

Chittagong Hill Tracts a sanctuary for extortionists

July 5, 2016

People claim the districts under triple rule virtually parbattanews report: [dropcap font=”arial” fontsize=”60″]T[/dropcap]he Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), the one-tenth territory of the country’s total area, has been turned into a sanctuary for extortionists. Like tax and levy, imposed by the constitutional government, extortion is open and Continue Reading

Bhusanchara Genocide: 400 Bengalis killed within hour

October 7, 2014

The shocking story of the highest killings ever wrote in CHT history   Sayeed Ibn Rahmat [dropcap font=”arial” fontsize=”60″]Y[/dropcap]ear 1984, From first light of 31 May to 8:30 at morning at Bhusanchara of Borkol in Rangamati. CHT people experienced a brutal massacre by Shanti Bahini, military wing of Jono-Sanghati Samiti (JSS). A terribly Continue Reading

UPDF involve for grenade blast: JSS

September 25, 2014

Parbattanews Report: Clamoring to declare illegal to United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) and ban it immediately, expressed in a press release signed by Jano Sanghati Samiti (JSS) information and media secretary Sajib Chakma due to grenade blast in front of regional council office at Rangamati on 22 September. In the statement, JSS uttered its’ deep […]Continue Reading