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One Jumma girl child raped in Dighinala
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News No. 11/2009, March 9, 2009
As the world observes International Women’s Day, a girl child is raped in a village in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a region where an overwhelming presence of military and settlers makes the ethnic Jumma women most vulnerable to sexual assaults.
Four-year old Ety Chakma was raped by Mostafa Mian, a Bengali settler from Betchari village in Dighinala Upazila, yesterday, 8 March, sources in Khagrachari said.
Quoting the victim’s father Zhimit Chakma and mother Joshi Chakma of village Shanti Lakshmipur in Madhyom Boalkhali under Dighinala Upazila, sources said the incident occurred at 1pm when Ety Chakma went to Miyeeni River, half a Kilometer away from their house, to have a bath.
At 3pm she was taken to Dighinala hospital from where she was referred to Khagrachari District Hospital.
“She is now lying on bed number 8 in the Child Unit of the hospital”, sources said.
Victim’s parents said the Officer-in-Charge of Dighinala police station had contacted them and taken their signature on a blank paper. They did not know the reason why the police did this.
Sonali Chakma, president of Hill Women’s Federation, condemned the incident and urged the government to bring the culprit to justice.
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Rape of Ety Chakma: HWF stages protest rally
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News No. 12/2009, March 9, 2009
The Hill Women’s Federation, a front organisation of the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), today brought out a procession and staged a rally in Khagrachari in protest against the rape of Ety Chakma in Dighinala. (photo attached)
The procession took off from Red Square and paraded the main road of the town before ending at Swanirbhor Bazaar.
Thereafter, the processionists held a rally which was presided over by Rina Dewan, President of HWF Khagrachari District Unit. Konika Dewan, Organising Secretary of the HWF and Arpan Chakma, Secretary of PCP Khagrachari District Unit, also addressed the rally.
The speakers condemned the rape of four-year old girl Ety Chakma and demanded immediate arrest rapist Mostafa Mian.
The leaders regretted that no perpetrator of human rights violations has ever been arrested and punished, and added that “the life of the Jumma women will never be safe and such kinds of incidents are bound to recur until and unless the army and settlers are withdrawn from the Chittagong Hill Tracts.”
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chtnews.com is an independent and voluntary online news service dedicated to projecting and analyzing the current events in the Chittagong Hill Tracts from the perspective of the Jumma people's struggle for the right to self-determination. For further information please contact at: chtnewsonline@gmail.com
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