Will you please explain to us as to what exactly do you
mean by indegenous people. I feel that we Bengalis are the indegenous
people of Bangladesh as Bengalis have been living in this part of
the world for over five thousand years. People you are trying to
refer as indegenous people have been living here for far less than
one thousand years. These small ethnic monorities have emigrated to
the hill districts of Bangladesh nearly 500 to 600 years ago. Please
explain why should you call them indegenous people.
Salahuddin Ayubi
--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, "Syed Aslam" <Syed.Aslam3@...> wrote:
>
> *Govt plans curbs on indigenous people's rights *
> *Staff Correspondent *
>
> Despite repeated pledges to guarantee ethnic minority rights, the
> military-controlled interim government has taken a move to curb
democratic
> rights of indigenous communities, according to an official document
obtained
> by New Age.
> The home ministry in an instruction, issued recently, asked the
> authorities concerned to prevent intellectuals and eminent
personalities
> from attending functions organised by ethnic minorities which were
mainly
> aimed at drawing the attention of the authorities to the
discrimination and
> negligence they are being subjected to.
> The instructions, which came in line with an intelligence agency
report,
> also included lessening coverage of their programmes both on print
and
> electronic media, and monitoring of the movement of a few ethnic
minority
> leaders, including Joytirindra Bodhipriya Larma alias Santu Larma
who had
> led a bush war in the Chittagong Hill Tracts for about two decades
until a
> peace deal was signed in 1997.
> The instructions are being carried out by many government
departments,
> according
> to sources in the administra-tion.
> When contacted for comments, the home secretary, Abdul Karim,
said he was
> not aware of such instructions. 'I have to see if there is
something like
> that,' said the home.
> It is learnt that a government agency has reported to the high
ups that
> the ethnic minority people have been engaged in propaganda against
the
> interim government aimed at tarnishing the country's image by
holding
> various programmes.
> 'Necessary measures should be taken so that the editors, left-
leaning
> politicians and eminent personalities do not participate in the
programmes,'
> says the report, submitted to the offices of the president, chief
adviser,
> home ministry, inspector general of police and Dhaka Metropolitan
Police
> commissioner.
> It named the persons and quoted their speeches delivered in the
> programmes, organised by the indigenous community on the occasion of
> International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on August 8,
2007.
> Bangladesh Adivasi Forum and Bangladesh Adivasi Odhikar Andolan
organised
> several discussion meetings which were attended, among others, by
indigenous
> leaders Santu Larma, Rupayan Dewan, Raja Debashis Roy, Promod
Mankin,
> Rabindra Soren and Sanjib Drong, economist Rehman Sobhan, former
bureaucrat
> Dr Akbar Ali Khan, lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain and Sarah Hossain,
politicians
> Manjurul Ahsan Khan, Rashed Khan Menon, Hasanul Haq Inu, former
> vice-chancellor Emajuddin Ahmed, retired official Amin Ahmed and
Professor
> Badiul Alam Majumder.
> Referring to Santu Larma's speech, the report said he had termed
the
> policymakers of the government communal commenting that their
[indigenous
> people] rights could not be established until a non-communal
progressive
> government was formed.
> The report said the adivasi organisations and some 'so-called
> intellectuals' had demanded that the indigenous people's day should
be
> observed officially.
> At one such discussion, Hasanul Haq Inu, Manjurual Ahsan Khan and
> Rabindra Soren delivered speeches which were 'unwarranted,' the
report
> claimed.
> 'They are also trying to obtain messages from the president and
the chief
> adviser on the occasion [of indigenous day],' it further says,
adding that
> in the name of observing the day, they are engaged in propaganda
against the
> country.
> 'They may also give confusing statements highlighting human
rights
> violations by the operations of the army and the army-led joint
forces,' the
> report said, urging the government to take necessary steps so that
no
> 'unlawful' activities could take place through such programmes and
addresses
> during the state of emergency.
> The home ministry, citing the reports of the intelligence
agency, sent a
> note to the information ministry on October 11, 2007 to take
measures to
> prevent such activities.
> Instructions to take necessary steps were also given to
Bangladesh
> Television, Bangladesh Betar and other institutions concerned to
that end.
>
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