News No. 61/2016: Friday, July 22,
2016
MEMBERS of the so-called Bengali
Chatra Parishad, an ultra communal outfit of the Bengali settler students,
attacked Hill Students’ Council (PCP) activists in Khagrachari town on
Wednesday night, leaving five of them severely injured.
The PCP activists were sticking
posters demanding the release of UPDF organizer Mithun Chakma, who was arrested
on 13 July from Aparnacharan Para in Khagrachari town.
The settlers led by Mashum Rana, a
councilor of Khagrachari Municipality, and Bishwajit Das, attacked them with
iron rods and sticks and then handed them over to the army, who in their turn
took them to Khagrachari cantonment and tortured them badly.
The next morning the army handed
them over to the police, who released them after making them pay fines through
a mobile court for putting up posters “illegally”.
The injured PCP activists included
Jeshim Chakma, a BA first year student of Khagrachari College and member of PCP
Khagrachari district unit; Jewel Chakma, president of Khagrachari Technical
School and College Unit and a second year student of the same college; Sajeeb
Chakma, a first year student of Khagrachari Govt College; Edition Chakma, a
second year student of Panchari College; and Pratipon Chakma, a second year
student of the same college.
Of them, Jeshim Chakma was admitted
to Khagrachari Sadar Hospital with serious injuries but the attending doctors
referred him to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for better treatment.
The
UPDF and PCP have condemned the attack and demanded the attackers be brought to
justice.
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