News No.162/2015:
Friday, October 23, 2015
A GROUP of settlers on
Wednesday beat up a Jumma woman, Mamaching Marma, 30, for protesting against
the grabbing of her land and stealing away of bushels of banana from her
plantation in Lama Upazila in the southern Chittagong Hill Tracts.
According to sources, a
group of 25 – 30 Bengali youths led by Md. Selim and Md. Saiful went to
Tiarzhiri, a Marma village, under Rupashi Para Union at 9:30am and claimed two
plots of land belonging to Uthoai Hla Marma and Mong Mong Ching Marma to be
their own.
They showed a forged
document to the Headman of the area in support of their claim.
Then the settler youths
immediately set at work cutting down the trees in Uthoai Hla Marma’s land and
began taking away bushels of banana from there.
When Uthoai’s wife Mamaching
Marma protested, the settlers beat her with wood sticks.
She was admitted to
Upazila Health Complex with multiple injuries.
The local Jumma
villagers said the land that the settlers are claiming to be their own are
registered in the name of two Marma villagers and they have been in possession
of it for generations.
‘Settlers are trying to
occupy this land forcibly with the support of an influential Bengali
individual’ the alleged.
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