Chittagong Hill Tracts Citizens Committee, Bangladesh Adivasi Forum and CHT Headmen’s Network announced a programme of 300-kilometre long human chain at a news conference at Tugun Restaurant in Rangamati yesterday.
People in Chittagong Hill Tracts will form the human chain demanding complete implementation of CHT Accord and establishing a separate land commission for ethnic people in plain lands on January 18.
The human chain would span from Dudukchara of Panchari in Khagrachari to Gundhum of Naikhyangchari of Bandarban from 10am to 11am, said sources.
Leaders of the organisations at the news conference alleged that the government was continuing to deceive people by providing wrong information about the implementation of the CHT accord.
They said there was no move to implement the basic aspects of the accord rather initiatives against the treaty was on.
National Human Rights Commission member Nirupa Dewan, Headmen’s Network leader Shaktipada Tripura and CHT Citizen’s Committee president Gautam Dewan were present at the news conference.
