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Santu group kidnaps DYF activist in Chittagong

chtnews.com 
News No. 101/2011, April 25, 2011 

A MEMBER of the Democratic Youth Forum and two others were kidnapped by Santu group from Rongipara of Dewanhat in the port city of Chittagong, a press release said. 

They were kidnapped at about 8pm on 23 April while they were in Rongipara to collect relief materials for the 17 April Ramgarh attack victims. 

A case has been filed with Double Mooring police station in this connection today. According to a DYF press release issued today, Lenin Chakma and his friends went to Rongipara on 22 April to collect relief materials for Ramgarh attack victims. 

There they met Junan Chakma, a member of the Santu group, who told them: “It would be a great trouble for you to go from house to house and collect relief materials. Please leave it to us; we will collect them for you and when we have finished, we will let you know. What you will have to do is to come and take them.” Junan Chakma hails from Shantipur village in Dighinala and is known to Lenin Chakma, who had shared a room with him earlier. (Of the other kidnappers, Ajoy Chakma is also from Santupur village, while Sumon Chakma’s permanent address is Indrama Chara under Subolong Upazila in Rangamati district. Sumon lives in Purnima Building at Bandar Thana.) Lenin and his team went back in the belief that his former roommate would not betray him. 

The next day, 23 April, Junan and his friend Ajoy Chakma phoned Lenin, telling him that they had finished collecting relief materials in their area and that he could come and take the same. When Lenin and his two friends – Kaleya Chakma and Suilapru Khiang — went to Rongipara to collect the relief materials, 10 – 12 Santu group men including Junan Chakma, Ajoy Chakma, Sumon Chakma and Indra Moni Chakma seized them. 

 They took Lenin and his two friends to a house in Free Port area and snatched their mobile phones. On 24 April, at about 12 noon, the Santu group men freed Kaleya Chakma and Suilapru Khiang, but took Lenin Chakma hostage. Lenin Chakma’s wife Swapna Chakma filed a case with Double Mooring police station today, and the police have swung into action. 

Lenin Chakma works in a factory (Four S Fashion?) at Dewanhat and lives with his family at Mishtri Para. His father’s name is Subash Basu Chakma. Originally, he is from the village of Beauty Ranjan Karbari Para in Betchari under Dighinala Upazila. 

Of the other two kidnappees, Kaleya Chakma is an employee of Nevia Sweater Factory at Monsurabad while Suilapru Khiang works in the same factory as Lenin. DYF Chittagong City unit president Ziko Marma in a statement condemned the kidnapping of Lenin Chakma and his two friends and urged the government to take immediate steps to free him.
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