Deputy Commissioner of the Khagrachari district published communal booklet against Jumma people
Recently Mohammad Humayun Kabir, the Deputy Commissioner of the Khagrachari Hill district, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), has published a book, \"Khagrachari 2001-2005\", in which he describes the indigenous peoples of the CHT as \'outsiders\', \'anti-Bengali people\', \'wild and uncivilized tribes\' and so on, and purposefully sent it to various Ministers, people representatives, government officials and offices of donor agencies in Bangladesh. The Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) strongly condemns and protests the book and the behaviours of the Deputy Commissioner, which breach the rules and decorum of a public office like one being held by him.
The book published in English from the office of the Deputy Commissioner in April 2006 portrays the indigenous peoples living in the CHT region since time immemorial and even before the arrival of any ethnic Bengalis as \'outsiders\' and \'anti-Bengali people\'. It is politically motivated. In addition to that, it presents some wrong and distorted statistics and information designed to provoke and perpetuate communal violence and to denigrate the indigenous peoples by endowing with various humiliating epithets. The writer describes the CHT Accord of 1997 to be \'controversial\'. He implicates the PCJSS with his very subjective and concocted charges, such as killing, kidnapping and extortion, with ill motive to tarnish the image of the organization.
The way the Deputy Commissioner is misusing his public office by manipulating such wrong and distorted statistics and information is a matter of grave concern and a serious threat to the democratic institutions in the CHT. It is above discord that his behaviors are highly motivated with political designs. It may be noted that unwelcome incidents like infiltration of Bengali outsiders, communal and terrorist attacks on the indigenous peoples, grabbing of indigenous lands by Bengali settlers illegally and so on have been scaled up to a great extent since his (Mohammad Humayun Kabir) appointment as Deputy Commissioner in the Hill district. In these circumstances, the PCJSS demands the government action for his immediate punishment and removal from the Office of the Deputy Commissioner and immediate ban on his communally and politically motivated booklet.
Released By : Sajib Chakma, Assistant Secretary for Information and Publicity
Date : 17Jun, 2006
Recently Mohammad Humayun Kabir, the Deputy Commissioner of the Khagrachari Hill district, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), has published a book, \"Khagrachari 2001-2005\", in which he describes the indigenous peoples of the CHT as \'outsiders\', \'anti-Bengali people\', \'wild and uncivilized tribes\' and so on, and purposefully sent it to various Ministers, people representatives, government officials and offices of donor agencies in Bangladesh. The Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) strongly condemns and protests the book and the behaviours of the Deputy Commissioner, which breach the rules and decorum of a public office like one being held by him.
The book published in English from the office of the Deputy Commissioner in April 2006 portrays the indigenous peoples living in the CHT region since time immemorial and even before the arrival of any ethnic Bengalis as \'outsiders\' and \'anti-Bengali people\'. It is politically motivated. In addition to that, it presents some wrong and distorted statistics and information designed to provoke and perpetuate communal violence and to denigrate the indigenous peoples by endowing with various humiliating epithets. The writer describes the CHT Accord of 1997 to be \'controversial\'. He implicates the PCJSS with his very subjective and concocted charges, such as killing, kidnapping and extortion, with ill motive to tarnish the image of the organization.
The way the Deputy Commissioner is misusing his public office by manipulating such wrong and distorted statistics and information is a matter of grave concern and a serious threat to the democratic institutions in the CHT. It is above discord that his behaviors are highly motivated with political designs. It may be noted that unwelcome incidents like infiltration of Bengali outsiders, communal and terrorist attacks on the indigenous peoples, grabbing of indigenous lands by Bengali settlers illegally and so on have been scaled up to a great extent since his (Mohammad Humayun Kabir) appointment as Deputy Commissioner in the Hill district. In these circumstances, the PCJSS demands the government action for his immediate punishment and removal from the Office of the Deputy Commissioner and immediate ban on his communally and politically motivated booklet.
Released By : Sajib Chakma, Assistant Secretary for Information and Publicity
Date : 17Jun, 2006
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