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No. 22/2013, Thursday, February 14, 2013
AN
ARMED gang loyal to Santu Larma tortured two women, a girl and a boy in
Rajstali in Rangamati district.
According
to sources, a gang of 8 Santu Group men led by Nazilya Tanchangya, 25 of Hara
Mogpara village, Holamong Tanchangya, 20, son of Bhushan Tanchangya and Chuti
Tanchangya of Doctorpara village last night, at 9pm, raided the house of Rojok
Tanchangya alias Rakhel, an active UPDF member, in the village of Noapara and
beat his wife Shanti Devi Chakma and a 15-year-old girl Nandita Chakma, a tenth
grade student of Rajstali Thaitong Para Government High School, with wooden
stick.
Then
the gang members proceeded to the house of Sunil Tanchangy, another UPDF
activist, in the village
of Doctorpara and
tortured his wife Rong Sona Tanchangya, 29, their 14-year-old son Rupom
Tanchangay, a ninth grade student. They sustained injuries from the beating.
The
Santu men threatened them not to move anywhere from the house, so they have
been unable to visit a hospital or a doctor.
Many
in the area described the torture of the UPDF activists’ family members as an
act of political vendetta. ‘What harm did they do to the attackers?’ a villager
asked. ‘They have been tortured because their husbands are involved with UPDF
politics. This is their only fault.’
Another
added: ‘This (torture of the UPDF activists’ families) is nothing but an act of
despair and desperation on the part of the Santu group which is losing ground
to the UPDF.’
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