News No. 51/2016:
Monday, June 20, 2016
TWO activists of the
United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF) and a motorbike driver were arrested
from Perachara and Guimara in Khagrachari district.
On 15 June, at about 5
pm, plain clothed army intelligence people arrested Mithu Chakma alias Milon,
26, and Milon Bikash Tripura, 34, from a tea shop at Perachara, two kilometers
north of Khagrachari district head quarters.
Mithu Chakma son of
Protimoy Chakma is a UPDF activist and hails from Kamini Karbari Para village
in Maischari, Mahalchari while Milan Tripura, son of Modon Mohon Tripura is a
motorbike driver and hails from Perachara village.
In another incident,
on 13 June, another UPDF activist named Sajai Marma, 32, was arrested while he
was returning from Bajpara on a motorbike after attending a meeting there.
Some army intelligence
personnel from Matiranga zone halted him at Kobutorchara Rastamatha area near
Toimatai bridge in Guimara at11am and then took him to zone headquarters.
Later he was handed
over to the Guimara police who sent him to Khagrachari jail after implicating
him in a previously filed case.
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