News No. 34/2018 : Monday,
March 19, 2018
A YOUTH leader was wounded and
two leaders of a women organization were kidnapped during an armed attack by
army-backed Nobyo Mukhosh Bahini vigilantes in Kudukchari of Rangamati district
on Sunday morning.
According to eyewitnesses’
accounts, 7 – 8 vigilantes, armed with sophisticated weapons, carried out the
attack at 9:15 a.m. after an army vehicle dropped them near a tea shop in
Kudukchari on Khagrachari – Rangamati road.
‘They got down from an army
vehicle, went to Abashik (a village), a few hundred yards from the road, and
then opened fire on the villagers,’ an eyewitness told chtnews.com.
The gun attack left Dhormasingh
Chakma, a leader of the Democratic Youth Forum, severely wounded.
The miscreants also set fire to
a house used by students in the village and abducted Monti Chakma, general
secretary of the Hill Women’s Federation, and Doyasona Chakma, president of its
Rangamati district unit.
Earlier the NMB chief Topon
Jyoti Chakma alias Borma had threatened to rape Monti Chakma for criticizing
his vigilante activities.
The army provided protection to
the vigilantes during the whole operation.
UPDF has condemned the attack
as ‘cowardice and obnoxious’ and urged the government to immediately disband
the Nobyo Mukhosh Bahini vigilante group.
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