Source: New Age
Staff Correspondent
National
minority students at a demonstration in the city on Monday demanded
immediate trial and exemplary punishment of the police personnel who
recently attacked Amtali, a Chakma village in Teknaf, leaving 11 injured
and several women sexually harassed.
They condemned the attack on the Chakma village.
Bangladesh Adibhasi Chhatro Sangram Parishad organised the human chain in front of the National Press Club.
The protesters said
that on May 30 a group of policemen from the Teknaf police station and
some Bangalis led by sub-inspector Bakhtiar and locally influential man
Abdul Haque raided Tanchangya villages, locally called Chakma villages
in Howaikyong under Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazaar district.
In the attack, they said, nine houses were ransacked and 11 Chakma villagers were severely injured.
They said that 30-year
old Malaimey Chakma, pregnant for eight months, was severely beaten by
the policemen for trying to protect her husband from police assault.
They said that following the beating, Malaimey gave birth to a premature baby.
They said that the police also arrested seven Chakma villagers, four of them students.
They said that following the beating, Malaimey gave birth to a premature baby.
They said that the police also arrested seven Chakma villagers, four of them students.
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