chtnews.com
News No.10/2016: Friday, February
12, 2016
AN ARMY officer has threatened
activists of the Hill Students Council with arrests and remands in Khagrachari
as they were demanding primary education in ethnic people’s mother languages.
According to sources, a group of
army personnel led by Major Atique stopped some participants of a rally at
Upali-para in Khagrachari town and threatened them with arrest and remand, a
euphemism for torture in police custody.
‘The Major also tore down our
placards, lectured us about many things and told us that he would have broken
our legs if he had had prior information about our rally and procession’, one
of the participants to the programme told chtnews.com.
The rally was organized by Hill
Students Council Khagrachari College unit to urge the government to concede to
their education-related five point demands including introduction of primary
education in ethnic people’s mother languages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Atique boasted about his
credentials on human rights violations and said he was the one who was in
charge of military operations in Khagrachari.
He also claimed that he had led
his troops in cracking down on another rally organized in solidarity with
Palestine people by a coalition of eight Jumma organziations including PCP on
29 November last year.
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