Chittagong Division (Left-wing Extremism): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2004

In another incident, police on January 10 recovered another body of a youth, claimed to be an activist of the Paharee Chhatra Parishad (PCP), student wing of the PCJSS, from Boroiyatola in the Barkal sub-district of Rangamati. Read less...

Separately, bodies of three United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) activists killed in the Naniarchar shootout on January 8 between UPDF and a pro-Chittagong Hill Tracts peace accord indigenous outfit, Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS), have been reportedly recovered. Read less...

Bharat Pratyagata Jumma Sharanarthi Kalyan Samity, the platform of the indigenous internal refugees, has called a 48-hour strike from January 19 in Khagrachhari in demand of food rations throughout the year. However, it is feared that the situation may turn volatile, as the Bengalee settlers have also reportedly drawn up a programme to oppose the blockade and the shut down. Read less...

The Daily Star has reported that the Parbatya Chattgram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) is enforcing its 48-hour road blockade programme from January 19 today, in three hill districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) to press home its four-point demand. The PCJSS demands are full implementation of the CHT peace agreement, appointment of a leader of ethnic origin to the post of chairman of the CHT Development Board by removing Wadud Bhuiyan, Member of Parliament, pulling out of all camps of army, Ansars (paramilitary) and Village Defence Party from the hill areas and handing over of the charge of CHT Affairs Ministry to a full-fledged minister of ethnic origin. Read less...

The Reuters quoting unnamed security officials reported that the government has sent troops to the remote Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) after the indigenous people enforcing a 48-hour blockade burned a police camp at Khagrachhari town and damaged several vehicles on January 19. The blockade has reportedly also resulted into sporadic clashes in which at least 10 people were wounded including a policeman. The tribesmen are demanding full implementation of the CHT Accord signed in 1997 and withdrawal of all army camps from the region. Read less...

The Daily Star reported that the 48-hour road blockade called by the Parbatya Chattgram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) in three Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) districts and the strike in Khagrachhari called by the Bharat Pratyagata Jumma Sharanarthi Kalyan Samity (BPJSKS), the platform of indigenous internal refugees, has ended without any major incident on January 20. All the three districts reportedly remained isolated during the period and some sporadic clashes took place in some areas of Rangamati and Khagrachhari. Also, the PCJSS has warned the government that it would carry out a 72-hours road blockade programme from February 7 to 9 if its four-point demand were not met. Read less...

Separately, the task force on refugees in the Chittagong Hill Tracks (CHT) met on January 21 in Khagrachhari after about four years but failed to take up the issues on the agenda as a representative of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS), Sudhasindhu Khisa and a refugee leader, Santosit Chakma on the body boycotted the meeting due to differences on the number of Bangalee settlers. Read less...