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(sent by Jumma refugees no resident in Tripura on 22 June, 1990) Your Excellency, We about 70,000 ill-fated Jumma refugees were compelled to take shelter into Tripura, India as a result from genocide, killing, torture, rape, looting, arson, eviction, land-grabbing, religious persecution, conversion to Islam etc. perpetrated by Bangladesh army in league with thousands of Muslim infiltrators in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The Jumma people hoped that the independence of Bangladesh would be meaningful to them. They hoped for minimum human rights what Pakistan Government trampled down. Pakistan Government plotted to exterminate the Jumma people through process. But the Bangladesh Government in rapture, has made two steps forward to destroy the national existence of the Jumma people more earlier. It deployed thousands of army, BDR, Police etc. in CHT to exterminate the Jumma people. Today CHT reduced into slaughter house of the Jumma people and flooded by thousands of Muslim infiltrators to reduce it into a Muslim populated area. What is more tragedious is that the minimum rights enjoyed by Jumma people by CHT Regulation-1900 (I of 1900) to safeguard their national existence was curtailed by repealment of CHT Regulation-1900 and enactment of Zilla Parishad Act. The Bangladesh delegation tried to motivate us for repatriation claiming that situation in CHT is peaceful, life security will be given to us, CHT problem has been solved and so on. We believe their plea for repatriation of us is ill-motivated and fabricated. Having been detailed thousands of army, BDR, Police etc. in CHT and conducting operation after operation by them on innocent Jumma people, enforcing the Jumma people to bring in the Concentration Camps (cluster villages), resorting to implement the Zilla Parishad with a few government stooges and puppets through military terrorism, evicting the Jumma people from their hearths and homes, grabbing their lands by Muslim infiltrators and above all without solution of the problem of CHT with Jana Samhati Samiti (JSS) the claim for peaceful situation in CHT is quite absurd and baseless. The black Zilla Parishad Act for CHT is a political bluff and mainly aimed to deviate the world opinion from CHT issue. It is a rolling stone for exterminating the national existence of the Jumma people soon. So we vehemently oppose this Zilla Parishad Act. We are eager for going back to our homeland and live like human beings with legitimate human rights. We have submitted two memorandum to Your Excellency, regarding our repatriation through Mr. Farooq Ahmed Chowdhury, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India in July, 1988 and Mr. A. Mayeed Chowdhury, Joint Secretary in May, 1989 at Jatanbari, Tripura State of India, who led the Bangladesh delegation for repatriation of Jumma refugees. But our utter regret is that Your Excellency did not fulfil our demands for repatriation. In reiterating the previous memorandum we, again, put forth following demands: 1. A meaningful talk be held between Government of India, Government of Bangladesh and Jana Samhati Samiti (JSS) who is fighting for our cause for permanent solution of CHT crisis. Representatives from Jumma refugees should also be included in the talk. The talk be held in presence of the representatives of the U.N.O., International Human Rights and Red Cross Committees. 2. To implement the accord of the dialogue properly, U.N.O. observers be requested to be present in CHT during implementation of the accord. 3. To stop further infiltration into and withdrawal of all infiltrated Bangladeshi Muslims from CHT. 4. To ensure the restoration of the Jumma land forcibly occupied by the Muslim infiltrators. 5. To ensure proper compensation of life and property lost by the Jumma people by attack of Bangladesh forces and Muslim infiltrators. 6. To ensure security of life and property with full guarantee of proper rehabilitation. 7. To stop forcible conversion of Jumma people to Islam and to get back all converted Jumma people to their own religion. 8. To stop forcing Jumma people to make concentration village namely, cluster villages, collective villages etc. which are detrimental to the interest of the Jumma people. 9. To withdraw all the military and para-military camps, cantonments from CHT. 10. To repeal Parbatya Zilla Parishad Act in the interest of Jumma people. 11. To observe the implementation of repatriation of the refugees of CHT, arrangement be made for visit of Indian people representatives, voluntary organizations, Press Agencies such as P.T.I., U.N.I., B.B.C., V.O.A., etc. and the refugee leaders. Date 10.5.'90 Jumma refugees at South Tripura, India. SIGNATORIES 1. Shri Upendra Lal Chakma, Ex-M.P., Bangladesh, 2. Shri Suresh Kanti Chakma, 3. Shri Ranjit Narayan Tripura, 4. Shri Akshoy Mani Chakma, 5. Shri Mohan Lal Chakma, 6. Shri Samarjit Chakma, 7. Shri Indra Kumar Tripura, 8. Shri Joy Sen Tripura, 9. Shri Daya Ranjan Chakma, 10. Shri Prabhakar Chakma, 11. Shri Jugantar Chakma, 12. Rev. Jnana Dhwaja Bhikshu, 13. Shri Shanti Bikash Chakma, 14. Shri Rashik Ranjan Tripura, 15. Shri Lal Kishore Tripura, 16. Shri Ramendu Bilash Chakma, 17. Shri Prafulla Kumar Chakma, 18. Shri Ghanashyam Chakma, 19. Shri Ketoki Mohan Roaza, 20. Shri Kong Chairi Marma, 21. Shri Thuila Prue Marma, 22. Shri Hemanta Prashad Chakma, 23. Shri Sukamal Chakma, 24. Shri Prashanta Tripura, 25. Shri Athoi Marma, 26. Shri Rabi Mohan Chakma, 27. Shri Aniruddha Chakma, 28. Shri Rabindra Nath Chakma, 29. Shri Arun Bikash Chakma, 30. Shri Jadra Mog, 31. Shri Mongcha Prue Karbari, 32. Shri Ajit Baran Chakma, 33. Shri Satyaban Chakma, 34. Shri Puspa Kanti Chakma, 35. Shri Nakul Chandra Tripura -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To have a current Center For World Indigenous Studies Publication Catalogue sent to you via e-mail, send a request to jburrows@halcyon.com http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/cwiscat.html Center For World Indigenous Studies P.O. Box 2574 Olympia, WA U.S.A. 98507-2574 FAX: 360-956-1087 OCR Provided by Caere Corporation's OmniPage Professional