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CHT conflict: BSF put on high alert, re – grouping time for NLFT
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PHOTO : Surrendered NLFT ultras. TIWN File Photo
Agartala, March 17 (TIWN): Border Security Force( BSF) deployed at eastern sector of Tripura have been put on high alert after reported clash between tribal people and law enforcers at Khagrachari, CHT of Bangladesh. Talking to TIWN, a senior official of BSF, Tripura sector wishing anonymity said our troopers deployed at international border were told to remain alert to prevent any kind of infiltration from Bangladesh.
According to intelligence report terrorist outfit NLFT may try to cash in from the ongoing volatile situation at Khagracahri. For last few months, NLFT was on run after security agency of Bangladesh - RAB, BGB and army was on all out against various terrorist organization operating from their soil.But the last Sunday incident paused the operation of security agencyies, giving NLFT time to re -group ahead of TTAADC election in Tripura state schedule to held on last week of April next.
It is mentionable here that at least 23 people, including eight soldiers of Bangladesh army, were injured in the clash on Sunday after military obstructed a march demanding the relocation of BGB ( Border Guard Bangladesh) and rehabilitation of evicted people from Khagrachari area.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts witnessed decades long political conflict and armed struggle between the Government of Bangladeshand the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (United People's Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts) and its armed wing, the Shanti Bahini, over the issue of autonomy and the rights of the indigenous peoples and tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The Shanti Bahini launched an insurgency against government forces in 1977, when the country was under military rule, and the conflict continued for twenty years until the government and the PCJSS signed the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997.
According to Amnesty International as of June 2013 the Bangladeshi government had still not honored the terms of the peace accord nor addressed the Jumma peoples concerns over the return of their land. Amnesty estimate that there are currently 90,000 internally displaced Jumma families
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