CDFI welcomes Bangladesh’s recognition of Chittagong Hill tracts as foreign affairs issue
Chakma Development Foundation of India (CDFI) welcomed the recognition of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) region as a “foreign affairs issue” by the Interim Government of Bangladesh.
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The Government of Bangladesh has now issued a notification to reconstitute the CHT Accord Implementation & Monitoring Committee with Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hussain as the Convenor and Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, President of the Jana Samhati Samiti (JSS) and Suddatta Chakmna, Chairman of the Task Force for Rehabilitation and Resettlement of the Returnee Refugees from India. In 1997, the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord was signed between insurgent JSS and Bangladesh Army to bring peace to the region.
“This historic shift of the Government of Bangladesh to recognise the Chittagong Hill Tracts as a subject matter of foreign affairs is welcome. The Chittagong Hill Tracts despite having 98.5% non-Muslim populations was awarded to Pakistan in violations of the letter and spirit of the Indian Independence Act of 1947 under which two dominions for Muslims and non-Muslims were created out of British India. The indigenous people of the CHTs had raised Indian flags on 15th August 1947 before being illegally awarded to Pakistan on 17th August 1947.” – stated Suhas Chakma, Founder of the CDFI.
