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The program was jointly organized by Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP), the Democratic Youth Forum, the Chittagong Hill Tracts Women’s Association and the Hill Women’s Federation in Cheragi Pahar in the city on Friday afternoon.
The general secretary of the PCP Nagar branch, Amit Chakma, chaired the demonstration with the slogan ‘Stop eviction and eviction of land in the hills in the name of development’ and youth leader Uchingshai Chak Shuvo chaired the demonstration.
Freedom fighters and investigators said. Mahfuzur Rahman told the meeting: “Indigenous peoples have made an important contribution in the liberation war. Bearing in mind the spirit of the liberation war, the people of the mountains should grant their own rights, not occupy the land. The conspiracy to build a five-star hotel on Chimbuk Hill and evict Mro must stop immediately. ”
Defender Bhulan Lal Bhowmik said: “The construction of a five-star hotel on Chimbuk Hill in Bandarban is not an isolated incident. It is part of a deeper conspiracy to wipe out the Jumma people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The aggression of this business establishment will have a negative impact on the lives of the people who live in the hills ”.
The Mro people complain that in recent years, various parts of the Chimbuk hills, the traditional land of the Mro, have been evicted in the name of tourism. Now, the Sikder Group is in the process of building a five-star hotel on the hill on approximately 100 acres of land.
If the project is to be implemented, Kaprupara, Kalaipara, Dalapara, Era Para, Remnai Para from the Mro community will be directly affected and 80 to 100 Paras will be indirectly affected; About 10,000 farmers in Jum will be at risk of becoming refugees for fear that 405 families will lose their land.
Hasan Maruf Rumi, leader of the Gana Sanghati Andolan Chittagong region, said that the hill tribes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts were being “forcibly evicted”.
Dr. Sushant Barua said: “Mrora Hall is the owner of Chimbuk Hill. We fully support the movement they have started to protect the mountains. If the land of Mrod is occupied, a strong movement will form along with the people of the plains. ”
Among others, Maidul Islam, professor in the department of sociology at Chittagong University, Subarna Majumder, professor in the department of mass communication and journalism, Hafiz Rashid Khan, poet and journalist, Jannatul Ferdous Poppy, former councilor of Chittagong City Corporation, Miton Chakma, Organizing Secretary of the Chittagong University PCP Branch, Vice President of the Chittagong Women’s Association. Pinky Chakma addressed the rally.
The Workers’ Party has demanded an end to the construction of five-star hotels:
The Chittagong district branch of the Bangladesh Workers Party has demanded that the construction of a five-star hotel be stopped by occupying the land of the Mro community in the Chimbuk hills of Bandarban.
Committee Chairman Abu Hanif and Secretary General Sharif Chauhan said in a statement: “The construction of a hotel occupying the land of Mrod goes against the main objective of the Hill Tracts Peace Agreement and against the environment. . This decision will lead to human and environmental disasters in the Chittagong Hill Tracts ”.
The statement read: “The Workers’ Party believes that such a decision goes against the mainstream of the peace agreement, as land rights have not yet been determined by the Land Commission.” It is necessary to refrain from evicting any group or community from its habitat and calling it a humanitarian catastrophe, as well as an environmental catastrophe in the name of commercial tourism ”.
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