Suhas Chakma, Director of the Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG), addressed the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva and raised the issue of racial violence against indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, as per a release.

Chakma stated that on September 28, three indigenous people were killed by the Bangladesh Army at Guimara village but the relatives of the victims are scared to file FIR because of the threats.

The release stated that last year, on September 19-20, the illegal settlers and the Bangladesh Army killed four indigenous persons, injured 75 others and burnt hundreds of houses of indigenous people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts but the government has not made public the inquiry report to provide impunity.

Chakma further stated, “Not a single ind

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