LAST: ["Bengali #settlers set fire on Jumma houses in Matiranga of Khagrachari district, #CHT #BDToday on 3 August 2013 around 3:00 pm, Bengali settlers set fire on Jumma houses at Bandarshing Para, Baga Para, Monudas Para and Sorbeswar Para under Taindong union of Matiranga upazila in Khagrachari district. Local sources said that around 200 houses were burnt to ashes. The Jumma villagers fled into the Indian border. They are now staying open sky. Bengali settlers looted valuables of Jumma villagers.
It is also reported that Bengali settlers held three Jummas namely Foni Bhushan Chakma current UP member), Bakul Kanti Chakma (returnee refugee leader) and Bineswar Chakma (former UP member) from Baga Para village of Taindong union. However, the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) rescued them from Bengali settlers. Now they were taken into BGB camp.
Sources reported that the Bengali settlers made this attack alleging that a motor bike driver named Md. Kamal (30) was kidnapped by tribal miscreants from Bandarshing Para of Taindong union on that day around 9:00 am.
Communal tension and fears have been persisting at Taindong area under Matiranga upazila for long time. Alleging extortion and kidnapping by tribal miscreants, Bengali settlers have been trying to attack on Jumma villages.
Very recently on 31 July 2013 at mid-night, Bengali settlers of Taindong area spread communal tension and shouted provocative slogans against Jumma people through mike from mosque that tribal terrorists had came to attack and asked Bengali settlers to wake up to prevent the terrorists. At that time, hundreds of Bengali settlers gathered at different places including Taindong bazaar under Taindong union and held marches shouting communal slogans.
This caused tremendous fears among Jumma villagers of six villages namely Baga Para, Headman Para, Tonga Mahajan Para, Sorbeswar Para, Rambabudeva and Pura Bari and around 250 families of these villages fled their respective villages. Some of the Jumma villagers crossed the Bangladesh-India Border and some took shelter at the jungle of remote areas of Taindong union. However, they returned to their village following a security guarantee by the BGB."]
--Kapaeeng Fdn
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