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News No. 32/2014, Monday, June 16,
2014
THE police have filed three separate
cases against over 200 Jumma activists for ‘attacks on police and vandalizing
vehicles’ during a half-day road blockade enforced by UPDF-affiliated
organizations today in Khagrachari district.
The road blockade programme was
called to protest an unprovoked police-BGB attack on Jumma villagers in
Babuchara who were protesting against the forcible land acquisition for a BGB
battalion headquarts in Dighinala.
The cases have been filed with three
police stations in Khagrachari, Guimara and Manikchari.
More than 2 hundred leaders and
activists of the UPDF, Hill Students Council, Democratic Youth Forum and Hill
Women’s Federation have been charged in a case filed with Khagrachari police
station on Monday morning.
And in Guimara and Manikchari, the
police filed another two cases against 15 Jumma activists for alleged vandalism
during the road blockade.
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