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Bangladesh: Minorities increasingly at risk of displacement

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25 June 2009: Land grabbing and violence against indigenous groups continue

On 13 June, 74 families including 56 indigenous families, were evicted from their land in a series of attacks at Khatirpur in the north-western sub-district of Porsha. The attack was led by 200 armed supporters of a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) adherent, allegedly backed by the police. Some days later, attackers tried to occupy land of 17 more indigenous families in Nachole sub-district. Protestors on 21 June called for the property to be returned to evicted families and the land grabbers arrested.

Meanwhile, in Khagrachari district in the south-eastern Chittagong Hill Tracts, indigenous people and settlers clashed over disputed land. The indigenous people launched protests against continuing attempts to grab their land, in response to reports that they had attacked the settlers to take back control of land settled between 1981 and 1982.



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