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No.12/2016: Sunday, February 21, 2016
AN
ORGANIZED settler attack has left about a dozen Jumma people injured in
Matiranga in Khagrachari district, sources say.
Among
the injured is an 18-year old student named Uchimong Marma, son of Aungyo Jai
Marma from Mongla Para in Laxmichari Upazila, who was travelling to Khagrachari
along with his friend Mong Sano Marma.
A
second year student of Khagrachari Government College, Uchimong was on way to
Khagrachari when the settlers stopped the bus carrying them at Matiranga bazaar,
pulled them down and beat them severely.
Both
of them have been admitted to Matiranga Health Complex with multiple injuries,
sources have said.
Mong
Sano Marma, of the same village in Laxmichari, who was at first thought to have
gone missing, was taken to police station, before being admitted to hospital
for treatment.
The
identity of the other injured Jummas could not be immediately known.
The
settlers carried out the attack after the dead body of a motor bike driver,
Azizul Hakim, was recovered in the morning today from a jungle near a tourist
spot Richang Zharna at Alutila, about 10 kilometers south-west of Khagrachari
town.
In
reaction, the settlers gathered at Matiranga bazaar at noon, forced people to
shut their shops, blocked Khagrachari – Chittagong road and attacked the Jummas,
unreasonably laying the blame for Azizul’s death on them.
The
settlers also chanted anti-Jumma slogans and vandalized vehicles during their
rally and march which they held as a warm-up exercise shortly before the attack.
UPDF
leader Pradipan Khisha in a statement has condemned the attack and demanded
that those involved in it be brought to justice.
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