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The 9th meeting of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord Implementation and Monitoring Committee was held in the premises of Parliament House on 30 April 2024. In the meeting, for once again, it came up with evidential proof that the government did not undertake any initiative towards implementation of the decisions adopted in the earlier meetings of the CHT Accord Implementation and Monitoring Committee. It is in this way the government has been turning the CHT Accord Implementation and Monitoring Committee to mere an institution of nomenclature. Needless to say that it is the CHT Accord Implementation and Monitoring Committee, the only entity recognized and acceptable to both the parties that the decisions and recommendations of the committee are mandatory to both the signatories of the Bangladesh Government and Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) in dealing with implementation of the Accord, which was signed without involvement of the third party,whereas, the Bangladesh government has kept showing utter disregard to that obligation.Due to non-implementation of the Accord till this day, the situation of CHT as a whole, has degraded to a highly sensitive state and become prone to explosion.12 innocent Bawm people including 1 child have been killed so far while making arrest of 111 persons including pregnant women and children belonging to Bawm community since 7 April to till date by the Bangladesh military. Consequently, approximately 5,000 Bawm villagers of at least 1,000 families of 47 villages fled to other places leaving their villages for fear of persecution while 192 Bawm villagers along with families had to take refuge in two phases in the neighbouring country. The number of Bawm refugees have gone up to 1,433 up till now as per the Mizoram official record up till now, but according to the non-government account, the number of refugees will be more than 2000.From January to June of 2024, in the CHT, 107 incidents of human rights violation have been perpetrated by the Bangladesh security forces and law & order forces, army-aided terrorist armed elements, Muslim Bengali settlers and land grabbers, wherein, at least 5,448 Jumma people including 5,000 men and women of Bawm people fell prey to those incidents of human rights violation. Besides, 1,284 families including at least 1,000 Bawm families and 76 villages including 47 Bawm families directly fell prey to the violations. On the other end, 1,806 acres of lands have been illegally occupied by the settlers and influential individuals and NGOs coming from outside of the CHT.

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