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News No. 54/2014,
Friday, July 25, 2014
THE local
administration has violated its own pledges to the people of Sajek that it
would withdraw police personnel from Ujo bazaar and would not call in the army
to patrol the area.
The Additional
District Magistrate of Rangamati and Baghaichari UNO had made the pledges on
Wednesday after the people blocked roads in protest against the local
administration’s unlawful intervention in the installation of a statue of the
Buddha on privately owned land and a conspiracy to evict Jumma villagers from
their homestead by building a BGB battalion headquarters in Sajek.
In return for the
government’s promise, the Jumma villagers agreed to postpone the installation
of the statue.
But the local
administration failed to withdraw the police personnel from the area, which
constitutes a breach of the pledge made to the protesting Jumma people.
At present a dozen
police personnel are present in the area to prevent the Jummas from installing
the statue of the Buddha.
In addition, the army
has also intensified patrolling of the area.
In this backdrop,
there is a simmering resentment brewing among the Jumma people in Sajek.
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