Bangladesh Betraying Ahmadiyya Muslims & Buddhist Chakmas
Alike ..... .....
Fearful Existence Of Bangladesh's Ahmadiyya Muslims & Buddhists
Alike .....
http://www.newagebd.com/2007/mar/04/front.html#18
New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Ahmadiyyas in Khulna fear attack
The Ahmadiyyas in the Khulna fear that they might be attacked by the
people against their doctrines over putting up and dismantling of
signs at a mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat.
Tension mounted among the Ahmadiyyas as they on Saturday morning
dismantled a sign put up at the mosque at Nirala in the city by the
Khatme Nabuwat Andolan Bangladesh on August 13, 2004.
The sing the Khatme Nabuwat put up read: This is the place of
worship of the Kadiyanis at Nirala, Khulna. No Muslim should think of
it to be a mosque.
The Ahmadiyyas said they had dismantled the Khatme Nabuwat sign at
the gate of the mosque complex at about 10:00am and soon after the
incident, a group of 50 to 60 men reached the place and threatened the
Ahmadiyyas for dismantling the sign.
The Ahmadiyyas informed the police of the incident at about
10:30am, said the police, who reached the place and tackled the
situation.
The Khulna police said no case had been lodged in this connection
till evening and more policemen were deployed at the place to avert
any untoward incident.
The Khulna Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat amir, Muhammad Shamshur Rahman,
told New Age that they feared they might be attacked.
Around 4,000 Ahmadiyyas - about 500 each in Khulna and Bagerhat and
about 3,000 in Satkhira - live in the region.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/06/26/d5062601033.htm
Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sunday, June 26, 2005
International concern can't stop persecution - 20 attacks on
Ahmadiyyas in 18 months
By Shamim Ashraf
Zealots carrying out countrywide violent campaigns against Ahmadiyyas
once again disregarded the concern of world rights community by
attacking the sect members with bombs and setting fire to their mosque
in Brahmanbaria on Friday.
The attack created panic among the 20,000 Ahmadiyyas in the district
where the minority sect preached their beliefs first in Bangladesh.
One suspect was arrested yesterday at the district town after a
Special Branch (SB) team visited the spot where two dozen bombs were
exploded by the zealots. A team of army explosives experts is likely
to visit the spot today.
District Amir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Monzur Hossain filed two
separate cases with Sadar Police Station in connection with Friday's
attack.
The attack came six days after a European Human Rights Conference on
extremism, intolerance and violence asked Bangladesh government to
ensure safety to Ahmadiyyas and restore their mosques now in capture
of anti-Ahmadiyya operatives.
The conference also asked for lifting the government ban on Ahmadiyya
publications but it could not stop the zealots from boosting the anti-
Ahmadiyya campaign.
The Amnesty International, UN Human Rights Commission, US State
Department, European Union, US-based Human Rights Watch and rights
activists at home and abroad earlier repeatedly asked the zealots to
stop persecution on the Ahmadiyyas.
In spite of the right bodies' concern, as many as 20 incidents of
attack on the Ahmadiyyas took place across the country in the last 18
months.
The persecution on the Ahmadiyyas never stopped since the anti-
Ahmadiyya campaign got a boost in 1987 when Khatme Nabuwat Movement
was founded in Brahmanbaria to lead the anti-Ahmadiyya campaign.
The district has become the most dangerous place for the Ahmadiyyas
where the zealots captured six mosques including the main Ahmadiyya
mosque, Masjidul Mobarak, in April 1987 to oust them from the area.
Syed Abdul Wahed, a pir (religious leader) who was the head moulana of
Annada High School in Brahmanbaria, preached Ahmediat (belief of
Ahmadiyyas) in 1912.
Opposition was there against the Ahmadiyyas although they follow the
same rituals as Sunnis who constitute 90 percent of Bangladeshi
Muslims, apart from their belief about the emergence of Imam Mehdi,
the last messenger of Prophet Muhammad.
The anti-Ahmadiyya people in a total distortion of fact propagate that
the Ahmadiyyas do not believe Mohammad as the last prophet.
Organising anti-Ahmadiyya forces under the banner of Khatme Nabuwat
Movement in Brahmanbaria in 1987, local religious leader Moulana
Sirajul Islam demanded that the Ahmadiyyas should be declared as non-
Muslim.
They captured six Ahmadiyya mosques including their main mosque,
Masjidul Mobarak. Although the Ahmadiyyas got back two mosques, four
including Masjidul Mobarak are still under siege by the anti-Ahmadiyya
elements.
The zealots renamed the main mosque as 'Masjidul Fathah' and
established 'Khatme Nabuwat Tajul Ulum Madrasa' in the mosque. Moulana
Idris, personal assistant to Islamic Oikya Jote Chairman Fazlul Haq
Amini, is the principal of the madrasa.
In the continuing persecution on the Ahmadiyyas, the zealots boycotted
and outcast the sect members in different parts of the country. Some
people bombed the Ahmadiyya headquarters at Bakshibazar in Dhaka on
October 29, 1992.
The cruellest attack was the explosion of a time bomb in a mosque at
Nirala residential area in Khulna on October 8, 1999 during Juma
prayers, which left seven Ahmadiyyas killed and 27 others injured.
The fanatics confined 17 Ahmadiyya families of Uttar Bhabanipur
village in Kushtia for over a month in October, 2003.
The zealots killed Ahmadiyya imam Shah Alam in Roghunathpurbak village
in Jhikargachha upazila of Jessore on October 29, 2003. Ahmadiyyas
alleged that local Jamaat leader Aminul Islam had led the gang.
Trampling down Ahmadiyyas' fundamental rights, the government on
January 8, 2004, banned their publications for what it said was
"objectionable materials which hurt or might hurt the sentiments of
the majority Muslim population of Bangladesh".
Khatme Nabuwat groups pulled down the signboards of Ahmadiyyas mosques
at Puranbazar in Patuakhali on May 12 last year, at Chawkbazar in
Chittagong 16 days later and at Nirala in Khulna on August 11 last
year.
They hung new signboards there that branded the mosques as merely
"place of worship" and asked people not to mistake those for mosques.
The agitators also changed the signboard of Ahmadiyya mosque in Bogra
on March 11 and of another mosque in Shyamnagar, Satkhira on April 17
this year.
The zealots attacked the Ahmadiyyas of Dharmapur, Dalpara and Kazipara
villages in Badarganj upazila in Rangpur and looted their houses on
April 29 this year.
A series of attacks on the Ahmadiyyas and looting of their houses left
17 Ahmadiyyas injured, including four women, in Shyamnagar.
Unknown people set fire to an Ahmadiyya mosque in Maharajpur village
in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore on June 21.
And the latest attack came on Friday when the zealots set fire to an
Ahmadiyya mosque of Kandipara in Brahmanbaria and blasted over two
dozen bombs including some time bombs leaving two Ahmadiyyas injured.
They also hurled bombs in Bhadughar in the municipal area and Suhilpur
in Sadar upazila simultaneously.
The bombs went off one after another, sending a chill of panic among
the Ahmadiyyas who accused local Khatme Nabuwat operatives for the
attacks.
Leaders of left-leaning 11-party alliance visited the trouble-torn
area yesterday and submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner
and superintendent of police demanding arrest and trial of the
attackers.
The 11-party leaders will observe a token sit-in in front of the DC
office today.
Police yesterday nabbed Sumon alias Chanchal, 22, from Mowrail area of
the town suspecting him as a bomb-maker. They started interrogating
him.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/07/17/d60717013822.htm
Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Monday, July 17, 2006
Bigots' Threat - Ahmadiyyas demand protection
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat once again urged the government to protect the
minority sect in the wake of religious extremists' recent threats of
holding them incommunicado at their houses and spreading hatred among
the villagers at Sharishabari in Jamalpur.
The minority sect also condemned law enforcers for being silent and
reluctant to act in two assault incidents on Ahmadiyyas on July 29
last year and June 16 this year. The sect believes it encouraged the
bigots to be more aggressive.
The recent declaration of holding 'incommunicado' the Ahmadiyyas by
the extremists at Ijara Para on Thursday instigated communalism among
the common villagers, who have started boycotting the minority members
socially.
The Ahmadiyyas have become confined to their houses and refrained from
going to work after the fanatics, agitating under the banner of
'Ittefaqul Ulama', threatened of attacks on them.
The local Ahmadiyyas lodged two general diaries (GD) with Sarishabari
Police Station on July 7 and 9 in this connection but the local police
failed to ensure their security.
The fresh campaign against the Ahmadiyyas began on Thursday at a
'Khatme Nabuwat' rally in Fulbaria Ijarapara Primary School ground
where the Ittefaqul leaders asked locals to boycott Ahmadiyyas, stop
selling anything to them or have any kind of contacts with them.
The fatwa (an Islamic decree), was issued from different local mosques
including Baitun Nur Masjid during the Juma prayers Friday,
instigating the locals not to communicate with the Ahmadiyyas.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Bangladesh yesterday in a press release
expressed their concern and sought government's intervention to ensure
the safety of the minority sect across the country, a constitutional
right of all.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/06/22/d6062201128.htm
Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Ahmadiyyas seek PM protection - Bigots in Uttara continue their hate
campaign; rights bodies vow to resist mosque capture threat
The Ahmadiyya community yesterday appealed to prime minister for
protection in wake of threat by religious fanatics to attack their
mosque in Uttara tomorrow.
Mobasherur Rahman, amir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangladesh,
submitted applications to the PM and state minister for home, seeking
protection and detailing the fresh hate campaign of the bigots against
the community.
An alliance of human rights organisations, the Working Group on
Minority rights, vowed to resist the fanatics on Friday, asking the
government to take necessary security measures for Ahmadiyyas in the
Ashkona area.
Meanwhile, activists of the anti-Ahmadiyya outfit-- Khatme Nabuwat
Movement Bangladesh-- from across the country started to gather at
different Kowmi madrasas in Uttara to carry out tomorrow's programme,
announced by a little known radical Islamist 'leader' Noor Hossain
Nurani.
The self-declared 'Islamist militant leader' vowed to attack the
Ashkona Ahmadiyya Mosque and loot houses of 22 Ahmadiyya families
there, the community in its letters stated.
Nurani is spreading hatred against Ahmadiyyas with false and imaginary
information about our religion, they said.
The letters said both leaders (Nurani and Mahmudul Hasan Momtazi) of
anti-Ahmadiyya outfits are out to create anarchy and disrupt law and
order in the name of Islam ahead of the general election.
"Such a declaration of terrorism and their activities in the name of
Islam are enough to ban the organisations. It is also tarnishing the
image of the country in the abroad," the letters read.
Zealots conducted hate campaign yesterday from two trucks in front of
the Ashkona Ahmadiyya Jame Mosque, vowing to oust Ahmadiyyas form the
area after capturing their mosque. The zealots took shelter at the
Northapara Babus Salam Kowmi Madrasa, Dakkhinkhan Bazaar Al Arabi
Kowmi Madrasa, Falan Kowmi Madrasa, Moktarbari Kowmi Madrasa and
Askona Bazar Boro Mosque Kowmi Madrasa.
"Encouraged apparently by the government's policy, the fundamentalists
dared to attack our men and capture our mosques across the country
again and again," Central Ahmadiyya Missionary Abdul Awal Khan told
The Daily Star yesterday.
Rights organisations-- the Ain O Salish Kendra, Bangladesh Mahila
Parishad, Bangladesh Coalition for Child Rights, Bangladesh
Development Partnership, Nari O Manobadhikar Foundation, Nari Pokkho
and Durbar Network-- yesterday announced at a press conference that
they would go to Ashkona to resist the fanatics.
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Friendly Buddhist Chakmas Threaten Guerilla War Against Bangladesh
Imperialists ..... .....
http://www.newagebd.com/2006/dec/02/front.html#4
New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Saturday, December 2, 2006
Santu threatens guerrilla war if CHT accord not implemented
Chittagong Hill Tracts leader Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma popularly
known as Santu Larma on Friday warned of another guerrilla war in the
hills region if the CHT peace accord is not immediately implemented.
'The people of the hill tracts are waiting for the next
parliamentary elections. The armed movement is inevitable if the
future government did not show much interest in implementing the peace
accord,' Santu, chairman of the CHT Regional Council, said.
'There is no alternative to that. I don't see any alternative,' the
former guerrilla commander told a discussion at the National Press
Club to mark the 9th anniversary of the CHT peace accord today.
The peace accord signed on December 2, 1997 ended 23 years of
guerrilla war in the pristine hills region that had claimed nearly
20,000 lives.
Santu, also chairman of the Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati
Samity, demanded withdrawal of, what he says, army rule in the CHT
region in the name of Operation Uttaran .
'My involvement in the movement for the rights of the indigenous
people started since my student days 46 years ago,' he told the
discussion on 'land crisis in the hills, internal refugee and
implementation of the peace accord.'
'But I did not take up arms willingly, rather I was forced to do
so,' he said while recalling MN Larma, who launched the armed movement
in the CHT, what Santu said, to ensure the existence of the Jum
nation.
Santu alleged that under the umbrella of Operation Uttaran, the
army had grabbed land of indigenous people at Dighinala, Alikadam and
Ruma to set up cantonments.
'About 9,507 acres of land were occupied by the army simply to
extend the Ruma cantonment,' he added.
The army and the forest department are continuing to grab land of
the hills people under government patronisation.
The former guerilla leader also accused the army of harassing
innocent people in the name searching for arms. He was critical of the
resettlement of Bengali refugees in the region since 1974.
Santu said as the chairman of the Regional Council he had been
given enough power 'but in reality an army man is far more powerful
than I am,' he added.
Questioning the neutrality of the army, he said the anti-peace
accord group United People's Democratic Front stay next to army,
collect money forcefully from the people and have tea with the army
personnel.
The army has made the lives of the hill people miserable and
unlivable, he added.
Santu said only a progressive, democratic and non-communal
government can resolve the problems by fully implementing the peace
agreement.
Maj Gen (retd) Amin Ahmed Chowdhury, who was the special guest at
the discussion, came down hard on the forceful modernisation of the
hill people.
He also stressed the need for respecting indigenous culture and
rituals even though it is a little community.
Mujahidul Islam Selim, general secretary of the Communist Party of
Bangladesh, Workers Party leader Haider Akbar Khan Rono and Adibashi
Forum leader Sanjib Drong also took part in the discussion.
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http://www.bangladeshobserveronline.com/new/2006/04/09/editorial.htm
Khaleda Zia's Party Uses Rape As Weapon Against Friendly Buddhist
Chakmas Of Chittagong Hill Tracts .....
Bangladesh Observer, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sunday, April 9, 2006
EDITORIAL
Khagrachhari Sounds Alarm Bell
News from the hills is alarming, to say the least. A clash between the
indegenous people of three villages under Mohalchhari Thana,
Khagrachhari and Bangalee settlers there have left at least 50 people
injured. In the incident two young girls of the indigenous community
fell victim to rape and a few people, including children, were missing
till Friday last. The atmosphere is charged with so much mistrust and
hatred that about 1,500 people of the three villages who fled during
and after the clash dare not return home. The army and police
stationed there claim they are trying to restore order and peace but
the hill people are not convinced enough.
Newspaper reports are categorical that the Bangalee settlers were
aggressors and the indigenous people were at the receiving end. But to
say that the settlers turned aggressors on their own is a
misstatement. In fact, they were incited by the local Bangladesh
Nationalist Party (BNP) leadership with indirect support from the
local administration. The motive is to grab land owned by the
indigenous people. The source of the clash was such a land-grabbing
attempt and construct a house on hill people's homestead in
Maichchhari village. The main partner of the coalition government, BNP
is exposing its fascist character almost everywhere. Kansat is a
witness to this. Its hatred for and hostility towards the minority and
indigenous people-apart from the main Opposition Awami League-is an
established fact. After the 2001 parliamentary election, all hell was
let loose with the BNP cadres indulging in a spree of violence, rape
and looting.
The old wound of Bangalee-hill people conflict is opening once again.
Because the BNP leadership is not sensitive enough to the hill
people's psychology of a subordinate nature, it is instigating the
uneasy relations, instead of healing the wound. Time the leadership
came to realize the implication of this localised conflict getting out
of hand and spreading beyond the confine of the three villages.
Leaders of the hill people have been sounding alarm bells for quite
sometime. But there is no one in the government to take the warning
seriously. This latest aggression on the hill people bodes ill for the
peace that was salvaged from scratches by the Awami League government.
The BNP may remain true to its fascist character only to the peril of
the entire country. It is easy to sour relations between two
communities, the challenge is to establish sustainable peace.
That the government does not care much for peace in the hills is clear
from the fact that not one minister or top BNP leader has taken note
of the situation. It was in the fitness of things for a minister to
rush to Khagrachhari and pay a visit to the three villages. It would
have helped to return normalcy in the area. The indigenous people
could gather enough courage to return home. How step-brotherly the
administration's treatment is can be gauged from one single fact. Of
the 30 Bangalees and six indigenous people arrested in connection with
the Monday's ugly incident, 24 Bangalees have been released on bail
but none of the six hill people were released. Even the two rape
victims' medical test was carried allegedly after 48 hours. There is a
concerted effort to protect the aggressors. This is condemnable. The
main partner of the ruling party must mend its fascist way or else it
will end up inviting trouble for itself and the country.
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Bangladesh Colonialists Grabbing Land Of Chittagong Hill Tracts'
Indegenous People .....
Chittagong Hill Tracts Will Be Free Soon - Raja Tridib Roy
http://www.banglaradio.org.au/BR-Archive-2006.htm
Bangla Radio Archive - 2006
July 10, 2006
This week's program presented a rare interview with Raja Tridib Roy,
the King of Chakma people living in the district of Chittagong Hill
Tracts in Bangladesh. Speaking to Bangla Radio while visiting
Australia recently, Raja Tridib Roy gave a detailed description of the
Chakma people - their origin, issues and solutions to their
discontent. This informative discussion also covered history, politics
and people from British rule to Bangladesh's Independence and how
these shaped the life and culture of Chakma people today. The
interview - a treasure for Bangla Radio - will be continued in next
week's program. The two beautiful Chakma songs played in the program
was sung by Alpana Chakma. This week's program was produced and
presented by Sadequr Rahman.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/08/22/d6082207.htm
Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Withdraw Bangalees from hill districts - PCJSS memo to PM
The Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghity Samity (PCJSS) submitted a
memorandum to the prime minister to press their three-point demand
including 'withdrawal of Bangalee outsiders from lands of indigenous
people.
The two other demands are an end to 'harassment and filing of cases'
against indigenous people and steps to activate the land commission as
early as possible.
The memorandum was handed over to Khagrachhari Deputy Commissioner
Humayun Kabir.
It contained signatures of at least 413 indigenous leaders, headman
and local elite.
The memorandum alleged that existence of indigenous communities are
threatened as Bangalees have grabbed their lands in different areas of
the district. It also specified the areas.
"We submitted the memorandum to the prime minister to protect
indigenous communities", said PCJSS Information and Publisher
Secretary Buddah Kingkor Chakma.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/08/27/d60827061785.htm
Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Hill students demand end to land grabbing
Staff Correspondent
Greater Chittagong Hill Tracts Hill Students' Council yesterday
demanded an immediate end to grabbing of lands of indigenous people,
shifting of settlers to plain lands and withdrawal of army camps from
the CHT.
The ethnic people are living in fear as the government is patronising
the settlers who are out to grab thousands of acres of lands, they
said at a rally on Dhaka University campus, marking the 'Mahalchhari
Devastation Day'.
On August 26 in 2003, the settlers killed two indigenous people, raped
ten women and burned four hundred houses in Mahalchhari, the speakers
said, adding that the settlers again launched a raid on Maischhari on
April 3 in 2006 to grab more lands.
Whenever the victims try to raise voice against such repression, they
face torture by law enforcers, said the student leaders.
Later, they took out a protest procession that paraded through the
campus.
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Bangladesh's Ruling Elite Jittery Over Book By Ex-King Of Buddhist
Chakmas .....
http://www.bangladeshobserveronline.com/new/2003/09/09/editorial.htm
Bangladesh Observer, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
EDITORIAL
The Restless Hills
The hill districts of south-eastern Bangladesh is restless again. A
military order was slamped in the area, apparently to improve the
situation. But it seems to have backfired. It was withdrawn a few days
later amidst severe criticism from the tribal leaders.
What prompted the government to impose a virtual military rule in the
area? Apparently, a book by the 'King' of the Chakmas' Raja Tridib Roy
published recently had prompted the government to take stern measures
in the region. The King, who is now in Pakistan and has been a
resident of that country since Bangladesh's independence in 1971. He
has also served that country loyally since 1971. His current book,
eportedly, challenges the integration of what was the Chittagong Hill
Tracts into Bangladesh.
No doubt the Raja's remark disturbs many in Bangladesh, particularly
as his son Debashish Roy has become the unofficial spokesman for the
Chakmas. Debashish should make his position clear regarding his
father's book otherwise there will be many who will think that he
tends to agree with it.
The government should also refrain from making sweeping
generalisations. Although it is true that the Chakma king had joined
the Pakistanis there were many of his tribe who joined the Liberation
War. The Chakma freedom fighters ought to have as much voice in
Bangladesh as Tridib Roy has in Pakistan. The wholesale branding of an
ethnic group as anti-national will only help the cause of people like
Tridib Roy.
Ethnic discontent has been a feature of South Asian politics for quite
sometime. The eastern part of the sub-continent has been more prone to
it. Neighboring India has had to face many ethnic insurgencies some
dating back to the days of the partition and independence of the sub-
continent from Britain in 1947. Some of these disputes have been
settled, while others fester. The most successful resolution has been
that of Darjeeling, where Gurkhas, themselves immigrants from Nepal,
were demanding a separate state. A regional council with adequate
powers was organised that defused the tension.
Bangladesh, too, had signed a peace accord with its tribal insurgents
but apparently it is not working. This is unfortunate. Governments
must understand that keeping a people in tow, by force, is not a
desirable thing. At the least, it is an expensive exercise. For a
poor, land-starved country like Bangladesh, one can easily imagine the
disillusionment of its minorities, particularly those who have a
geographically defined territory.
In a sense the problems of the Hill districts is a common third world
problem. Minorities failing to identify with the post-colonial state.
Many of the countries of East Asia like Malaysia and to a lesser
extent Myanmar have solved this problem by providing economic
largesse. For Bangladesh that seems a difficult proposition. The only
way Bangladesh can solve this problem is by taking the pro-Bangladesh
elements into confidence.
One has to remember that country's like China have allowed Specialized
Economic Zones (SEZs) that are totally free not only to run their
local affairs but also to conduct foreign trade. This has not had a
negative impact on Chinese integrity but has contributed positively to
nation-building. Policy-makers in Bangladesh should remember the
experience of handling such ethnic issues throughout Asia to find a
solution that works. Otherwise, the Hill districts will remain no-
man's-land for a long time to come.
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