If you want to live in peace in the mountains, you have to accept the word ‘peace force’. And they have to pay taxes.
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| Shooter Din Islam |
The words below are not fiction, they are completely real. Some are collected from my colleagues and some are part of my personal experience and current events
If you want to oppose them, they will be very careful to destroy your peace. If you want more peace, you will fall asleep in peace.
We go for a walk in the mountains, take pictures and go for a walk. But the image of the mountain does not catch our eye. We don’t see images of hundreds of trees being cut down and mountains cleared. I never try to understand their grief by talking to the locals.
Even if we understand, we understand as much as the intellectuals and journalists who bought flats with the money of the peace chiefs. We think, aha! We are torturing them so much.
But if you are in the mountains, you have to pay taxes to them. You have to pay your house tax. If you have land, you have to pay tax on it. If you cultivate that land again, you will have to pay tax for it.
Bengalis have to pay land tax twice a year. Do transport business? You have to pay tax on the car and every invoice. Drug companies have to pay taxes there.
The tribesmen there do not come to the police station to give justice. Then they will be punished for ‘going to the settlers’. He can only come if he is allowed to go to the police station. You will be killed even if you do not pay their dues.
These hill terrorists do not want roads there. Let there be development, let there be people. Do you think the environment will be ruined by opposing it? Those who cut down trees, burn down mountains, do they care about the environment? Nothing like that.
If there is tourism in the mountains, if there is development, the common people will benefit. But it will reduce the influence of terrorists, violence. Naturally terrorists don’t want it. That’s why they put up posters, to stop tourism in the mountains. It is not new that they consider the mountains as their own resources. They call the Bengalis settlers. Indigenous people claim themselves.
I don’t know if you have noticed that after the caretaker government took power, the term ‘tribal’ was suddenly changed from ‘tribal’. Many use the term indigenously without realizing it. Indigenous means the indigenous people of that area. Among the tribes, the real indigenous people of Bangladesh are Rakhine and Santal. The ancestors of those who claim to be indigenous people fled Myanmar and India only one and a half to two hundred years ago and took refuge in this country.
They fled to escape the Burmese king of Myanmar. Bengalis used to live in the hills long before this. But he did not live in the depths like them. There were two reasons behind their stay in Gahin. One: Those who fled to escape the Burmese king. They had gone to such a deep and inaccessible mountain that the Burmese king could not find them. Burmese are ethnically violent. They also carried out genocide on our Rakhine.
They came to this country to save their lives. In the same way, many groups go deep. That’s where he started living. Two: Bandit. We have read in books that they are pirates. They robbed like water, they robbed on land, they looted. They would go into the deepest mountains with the stolen goods. Loot items were hidden here. The rulers could no longer find them. However, there is no problem that they have now become indigenous. They are becoming Christians in groups, but there is no problem. The problem is – if you are a Muslim.
Whatever you are in the mountains, you cannot be a Muslim. When done, you will be killed. You will be found and killed if you flee to the city. They have that amount of money and resources. But they do not go along with Christians. This is because their ultimate goal is to establish a separate country called Jummaland. In that case, the support that the international community needs, if Christians are killed, they will not get it. And they don’t see Christians as a problem. Their problem is Bengalis and Muslims.
Even a Bengali child growing up in the mountains knows how much power they have there For this reason, even if a Chakma boy slaps him, he does not protest. Even if he ever goes to judge his father, his father teaches him to be quiet. There will be little opposition to them, but it will be impossible to survive. If you are a Muslim you will be killed, no problem.
There won’t be much of a protest. But if it is spread that you have become a Muslim, the whole of Dhaka will shout ‘hill culture is being destroyed’. The capital of Bangladesh is Dhaka. After becoming a Christian, however, the hill culture remains green. The hill terrorists are no longer called peacekeepers, they have now changed their names. The strongest of them is Santu Larma’s JSS.
At the same time, they get the favor of Dhaka, they are the state guests and they carry out extortion and murder in the hills without any hindrance. One morning on May 30, 1974, a village of more than 400 people was wiped out in an overnight massacre of unarmed Bengalis. Bengalis were slaughtered for a long time. Was shot. Probably in 2015, a businessman was shot in the head at noon in Matiranga market for not paying Rs 2 lakh.
Then I was there. The army was deployed there for the security of the common hill people and the Bengalis. The mountains were a bit quiet. Although army members were also almost killed. After 2010, most of the army camps were withdrawn as part of a peace deal with the peacekeepers. Some more such incidents of murder are mentioned below. Maybe don’t read. But I mentioned it as documents. If you read, you will get a good idea.
Chronology:
1. (198-): Killing of Bengalis and army in Chittagong Hill Tracts May 8, 1986: Five soldiers, including Abdul Qadir, are killed on duty on the Sangu River.
2. October 25, 1986: Naik Abdul Gani Mia, Naik Abdus Sattar, Naik Arif, Sepoy Lutfar Rahman, Sepoy Ali Hossain and Sepoy Abdul Khaleq Munshi were killed in Bandarban.
3. February 2, 1969: Ambush on the Sangu River, killing an army officer and looting large quantities of ammunition. July 5, 1969: Two Ansar members are abducted and killed in Kaptai Natun Bazar.
4. September 17, 1989: Naik SM Ruhul Amin was killed in Dighinala. October 14, 1969: Five army personnel were killed in Khagrachari. 4. September 17, 1989: Naik SM Ruhul Amin was killed in Dighinala. October 14, 1969: Five army personnel were killed in Khagrachari.
5. December 19, 1989, Langadu: Simultaneous attacks on several villages on the same night, killing 20 non-tribals, injuring 40, burning 104 houses. January 23, 1970: Three army members were killed and five others were injured in Khagrachari.
6. April 21, 1980: 20 soldiers of 11 Rifle Battalion were killed in an ambush at a place called Falaungpara and a lot of weapons were looted. March 1, 1980: Major Mohsin Alam and 22 other army personnel were ambushed and killed at a place called Ghantichhara.
7. March 25, 1970, Kaukhali: Attack on Bengali settlement, 29 killed on both sides, 11 injured. 15 September 1970, Kaukhali, Betchhari and Kachukhali:
7 Bengalis killed and 25 injured in a surprise attack. April 29, 1974: Massacre at a Bengali settlement in Matiranga, Khagrachhari. No actual casualty figures were found.
8. 31 May 1984, Barkal: Attack on a Bengali settlement in broad daylight, 7 people were shot dead, 33 injured and 18 abducted 264 houses burnt to ashes. July 19, 1986: An army member was killed and six others were injured in Khagrachhari.
9. 22 July 196, Dighinala: 24 Bengalis killed, 32 abducted in armed attack. August 8, 1982: Two Ansar members are abducted and killed. June 21, 1966: Ambush, army members Abdur Razzak, Ismail Hossain and Mohanlal were killed near Naraichhari.
10. 24 November 1966: Two army members were shot dead in Shilchhari. April 17, 1989, Bashkhali: 15 people were killed in a hill-Bengali clash. January 26, 1989: Abul Hossain, Bazal Ahmed and Mahbubul Alam are abducted and killed.
11. 4 May 1989, Langadu: 15 Bengalis killed in a surprise attack. April 17, 1990, Naikhyangchhari and Balipara: 19 Bengalis were shot dead. In the same year, 11 army personnel were abducted and killed in Thanchi. January 10, 1992, Khiram: Attack on Khiram forest office, killing 8 employees.
12. February 2, 1992, Langadu: A bomb blast on a moving launch kills 16 Bengalis. June 29, 1992: Attack on a guard post on the Mahalchhari-Rangamati road, killing two army members. June 14, 1995: Bank robbery at the hands of a group of 20 peacekeepers. Guard killed and two bank employees abducted.
13. 9 September 1996, Pakuakhali (Rangamati): 35 Bengali woodcutters were killed in a brutal attack. They call our army olive terrorists. Bengalis are called settlers. Even if a tribe converts to Islam, they call him a settler.
14. The last few days ago, Santu Larma’s Jan Samhati Samiti – JSS shot and killed Omar Farooq Tripura in Roangchhari, Bandarban for the crime of converting to Islam. They had given him an ultimatum for a long time to leave Islam.
Innocent people die in the mountains, traitorous terrorists are the chief guests at state events. We just serve them without realizing it. Don’t just go for a walk in the mountains, don’t believe what the civilians say. Keep inquiring about the mountains. Or you may need a visa to visit the mountains at some point.
Shooter Din Islam further said that it is a state issue though only my personal opinion of the above descriptions. It is the responsibility of the government to understand the good and the bad in this regard. If the government thinks that this is not a problem but part of the general problem prevailing in the country, then the government has full responsibility in this regard. However, as a conscious citizen, I have the right to discuss and criticize every issue of the country.
