Elderly Santal men sit in despair after they were attacked and evicted from their homes on November 6, 2016 Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneAmu also added that the government had tried several times to convince the Santals to move, without success.
On Monday, Senior Secretary Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan also alleged that a vested group had brought the Santals and outsiders in the area to grab government land.
The village close to Sahebganj-Bagda farm in Gobindaganj of Gaibandha witnessed violent clashes on November 6 and 7 which left everything of the settlers looted and reduced to ashes. Three Santal men were killed and more than 30 people were injured in the violence.
The Santal families are still living there despite being in fear of mass arrests in the latest flashpoint of a long-standing land dispute.“The government acquired the land for a sugar mill in 1954," Amu told journalists after a cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat Tuesday. "Since then, the land was in possession of the sugar mill for the last 62 years and there were no Santals or Bangalis.”
“Some land grabbers brought some of the Santals there with the intention of taking hold of the land. Had the government not moved into action that day, they could have taken possession of the land.”
Elderly Santal men sit in despair after they were attacked and evicted from their homes on November 6, 2016 Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneAmu also added that the government had tried several times to convince the Santals to move, without success.
On Monday, Senior Secretary Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan also alleged that a vested group had brought the Santals and outsiders in the area to grab government land.
The village close to Sahebganj-Bagda farm in Gobindaganj of Gaibandha witnessed violent clashes on November 6 and 7 which left everything of the settlers looted and reduced to ashes. Three Santal men were killed and more than 30 people were injured in the violence.
The Santal families are still living there despite being in fear of mass arrests in the latest flashpoint of a long-standing land dispute.
Elderly Santal men sit in despair after they were attacked and evicted from their homes on November 6, 2016 Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneAmu also added that the government had tried several times to convince the Santals to move, without success.
On Monday, Senior Secretary Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan also alleged that a vested group had brought the Santals and outsiders in the area to grab government land.
The village close to Sahebganj-Bagda farm in Gobindaganj of Gaibandha witnessed violent clashes on November 6 and 7 which left everything of the settlers looted and reduced to ashes. Three Santal men were killed and more than 30 people were injured in the violence.
The Santal families are still living there despite being in fear of mass arrests in the latest flashpoint of a long-standing land dispute.